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France: the turnout continues to decline, towards the record

2022-06-12T15:32:02.990Z


Voter turnout in the legislative elections in France still drops, at 5 pm calculated by the Ministry of the Interior at 39.42%, down by 1.3 points compared to the same time in 2017, when it had reached historic lows. (HANDLE)


Voter turnout in the legislative elections in France still drops, at 5 pm calculated by the Ministry of the Interior at 39.42%, down by 1.3 points compared to the same time in 2017, when it had reached

historic lows

.

By noon, the drop was 0.8% compared to 5 years ago.

The French began to vote at 8 for the legislative which

will renew the Parliament

and give a new majority to the re-elected president Emmanuel Macron.

With his centrist coalition Ensemble !, the president risks - according to the polls - to lose the absolute majority set at 289 seats, due to the strong increase of Nupes, the left united under the aegis of the radical "tribune" Jean-Luc Mélenchon .

The splendid sunny day risks worsening the results of a turnout that was already expected to further decline compared to the 2017 record, less than 50% common.

The results of this first round - the ballots are scheduled for next Sunday - will be announced at 20, but the complicated game of the second round, between duels and "triangles" does not facilitate predictions on the final outcome of the vote.

With

Marine Le Pen

aiming to rise from 8 current deputies to thirty, the left-wing coalition seems to fear most abstention, which next Sunday, to try to undermine the macronists, will have to focus on the mobilization of those who will not go to the polls today.

Those who will not be directly elected tonight with an absolute majority in their own seat, to access the ballot, must either have finished in second place, or have exceeded 12.5% ​​of the votes of the registered voters.

In this case,

the "triangular" will take place in the ballot

.

If Emmanuel Macron does not obtain an absolute majority - which he had largely together with the MoDem centrists in the first mandate, with 341 deputies - he will have to come to terms with the other parties to push through his reforms, in particular the very controversial one that will gradually increase in

retirement age

, up to 65 years

.

Mélenchon's project, which wants to go down from the current 62 years to 60, has the opposite sign.


Source: ansa

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