According to opinion polls, the national coalition can get up to 37 percent of the votes. President Macron’s centrist coalition is getting only 20 percent of the vote.
According to opinion polls, France’s far-right party, the National Coalition, is getting the biggest vote in the first round of the parliamentary elections on Sunday.
The anti-immigration and Eurosceptic National Alliance has risen by two percentage points since last week, and could win up to 37 percent of the vote, according to an Opinion Way poll published by Les Echos newspaper on Friday.
President Emmanuel Macron on the other hand, the number of votes of the centrist coalition has decreased from a week ago by two percentage points, and it is getting 20 percent of the votes. The left-wing coalition The New People’s Front is getting 28 percent of the vote.
Another poll conducted by television channel BFM with Elabe company gives the National Alliance 260-295 seats in the country’s parliament. The party therefore has the opportunity to exceed the limit of 289 seats, which is required for an absolute majority.
The exact distribution of parliamentary seats is difficult to predict, as the result depends on the results of France’s 577 constituencies. In addition, the competitors of the National Alliance can ally with each other in the second round on July 7.
Macron announced early elections with the landslide victory of the National Coalition in the European elections. The next elections were originally scheduled to be held only in 2027. However, Macron has announced that he will continue as president until the end of his term until 2027. The election victory of the national coalition in the parliamentary elections would put Macron in a difficult position, as it would be the first time in France that the president would have to share power with a party from outside the political mainstream.
Source: Reuters