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French Parliamentary Election: Macron’s Party on Course to Claim Majority

French Parliamentary Election: Macron’s Party on Course to Claim Majority
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Exit estimates in the French Parliamentary elections suggested that President Emmanuel Macron's centrist La Republique En Marche Party is projected to win a huge majority in the Parliament's seats.

French Parliamentary Election: Macron’s Party on Course to Claim Majority

Macron's fledgling party is expected to win between 415 and 445 seats in the lower house after taking a projected 32.3% of the vote.

This margin of victory in the 577-seat house would give Macron the majority he craves to further his political revolution. The 39-year-old's LREM party is hoping to make huge gains and inflict a further blow on the country's traditional ruling parties.

It would be a remarkable achievement for Macron, who won the French presidency last month without the support of a traditional mainstream party.

Instead, Macron's movement helped carry him to a convincing election victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.

The LREM contested 526 constituencies out of a possible 577. His party put forward 266 women candidates, while 219 come from outside politics. He has drawn candidates from a cross-section of society, including a former bullfighter, a Nobel Prize winner and an ex-fighter pilot.

The final results will be confirmed next Sunday after the second round of voting. A number of candidates will face a run-off.

To win a seat in the first round of voting, candidates had to win more than half of the votes, which must account for at least a quarter of the registered voters.

If no candidate manages to achieve that target, then all candidates who won at least 12.5% of registered voters go to the second round, where the winner will advance to Parliament.

The run-offs take place next Sunday when the final results will be known.

Both the Republican and Socialist parties, which have traditionally governed during the time of the Fifth Republic, struggled with turnout, which was projected at 49.5% by Elabe.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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