What if the polls get it right? Far right still in lead ahead of snap French elections

Rebecca GNIGNATI | Siobhán SILKE | François PICARD | Clovis CASALI | Jacques MYARD | Olivia POLSKI | Éleonore CAROIT

Edité par France 24 - 2024

An even shorter sprint starts on Sunday night at 8pm local time, when the polls close in the first round of voting. France's legislative elections are actually 577 individual races that feature a second round the following week. What alliances could we see? What are the chances of an outright majority for Marine Le Pen's National Rally?

What message do citizens of the European Union's second-largest economy really want to send for a national contest … with worldwide consequences?

Produced by Siobhan Silke, Rebecca Gnignati and Juliette Brown. 

 

Note
  • Don't blink, or you'll have missed the shortest electoral campaign in the history of France’s Fifth Republic. Will nineteen days of canvassing have moved the needle since Emmanuel Macron's surprise dissolution of parliament on the night of the European elections? Not according to polls. They suggest the president may regret his decision to clear the air. The far right has never been closer to power since the Nazi collaborator regime of Vichy.

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
27/06/2024
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
Clovis CASALI FRANCE 24 reporter
Jacques MYARD French MP, Les Républicains
Olivia POLSKI Deputy mayor of Paris and city councillor, Socialist Party
Éleonore CAROIT Member of French Parliament, Renaissance party

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