The right-wing populist National Rally Party, led by Macron's arch-nemesis Marine Le Pen, won the first round of France's parliamentary elections on Sunday.
Macron's party, the Ensemble Alliance, slipped to a distant third place.
Current results show FN taking 34% of the vote, with the far-left New Popular Front coalition five points behind at 29%. The Ensemble alliance sits at 21%. It may just be the first round, but Macron's party is guaranteed to suffer massive losses in the National Assembly no matter what happens next, as this piece will later explain.
Le Pen addressed supporters following her party's successful evening.
Currently, RN is projected to garner between 230 and 280 seats in the 577-seat lower house, the NFP between 125 and 165 seats, and Ensemble with just 70 and 100 seats.
Given the disastrous results for Macron's party, the focus now turns to whether the French President will resign.
Any such resignation will likely not come until after next week, and the French left has a trick up its sleeves to steal seats from FN. The Guardian reports that senior members in the NFP alliance, which include Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leftist leader of Unbowed France, have vowed to withdraw in all constituencies where RN finished first and the NFP candidate third.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/laissez-les-bons-temps-rouler-globalist-french-president/
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