President Emmanuel Macron, ahead of the second round, has asked to study each constituency in France to find alliances “case by case”, including with candidates of the France Insoumise (Lfi), to block the advance of the Rassemblement National (RN) of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. This was reported Bfmtvafter the far-right alliance won the first round with 33.15%, while Macron stopped at 20.4% and the left united in the New Popular Front of the gauche reached 28%. The deadline for defining the alliances in the individual polling stations is today at 6 pm.
The final results of the first round and the projections of the seats
There are a total of 577 seats to be allocated in the same number of constituencies and the absolute majority is set at 289. In the first round, the Rassemblement National and its far-right allies obtained 33.15% with a potential seat range of 255-295. Then: New Popular Front of the left 27.99% (120-140 seats); Ensemble (Macronian majority) 20.04% (90-125 seats); Les Républicains/right-wing centrists UDI/Others of the right 10.74% (35-45 seats); Others, ecologists, regionalists 2.0% (10-14 seats); Others of the left or dissidents of the Popular Front 1.5% (11-12 seats); Far left (Lutte Ouvrière and others) 1.5%; Several centrists and dissidents of the Ensemble majority 1.0%; Sovereignists and other far-right 0.5% (0-1 seats); Reconquête (Eric Zemmour) 0.5%.
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185 “third party” candidates withdrew ahead of runoff
The number of anti-Rn candidates withdrawing from the “triangular” elections in view of the legislative run-off has reached 190. According to a count of The worldthis morning there are 123 candidates from the left and 64 from the majority who – having come in third – have withdrawn their candidacy to converge the votes on the opponent of the representative of the far right with the best chance of winning. The triangular elections planned are 306, to which 3 quadrangular ones are added but the number is destined to decrease after the final count of the dropouts to block the road to the Rassemblement National. Also according to Le Figaro the majority of those who withdrew were with the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP). However, candidates from Ensemble also dropped out, such as the three ministers Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, Marie Guévenoux and Fadila Khattabi. In addition, in Calvados, the LFI candidate withdrew to favor the election of former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne against RN. The same approach was used in Tourcoing, where the candidate nominated by NFP withdrew to avoid the risk of seeing RN defeat Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
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The framework of alliances
Emmanuel Macron was the first to speak after Sunday’s results: “In front of the Rassemblement National, the time has come for a broad, clearly democratic and republican union for the second round”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, from the left, thundered: “Not a single vote will go to the RN, wherever we are third, we will withdraw our candidate”. With the consequent indication to vote for the local opponent of RN, in this case the Macronian majority. From which, however, after the president’s words, no equally clear indications have arrived. Even Edouard Philippe, one of the leaders of the majority, has given indications decidedly contrasting with those of Macron, inviting his militants “to desist to avoid the election of RN or LFI, La France Insoumise, candidates”. Since LFI is by far the strongest party in the left-wing coalition, the dam of desistance would give way wherever there are candidates from the majority who desisted but whose votes would not go to the Front Populaire if the local candidate was from LFI. Aware of the enormous stakes and the negative perception of La France Insoumise among centrists and the moderate right, Glucksmann, who brought the Socialist Party back to third place in the European elections, raised the alarm: “We have 7 days to avoid a catastrophe in France”. The Republicans, who did not follow Eric Ciotti in his agreement with Marine Le Pen, and who nevertheless obtained a considerable 10% of the vote, have already announced, for their part, that they will not deliver votes to their voters.
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