The Rise of the Radical Right: Macron’s Election Strategy Falls Short in France’
French voters participated in the early French parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 30 (July 10) with an unprecedented turnout. What attracted the most attention was the high participation of about 67% of the French in this round of parliamentary elections, which is unprecedented in this country during the past decades and even after the Second World War.
In this election, three major political blocs competed, which were the “National Community” affiliated with the extreme right movement, the moderate coalition “Alliance Together” led by French President Emmanuel Macron, and the “New Popular Front” coalition consisting of leftist forces. , middle left and green.
The results of the counting of votes in the first phase showed that the right-wing party “National Community” belonging to “Marine Le Pen” won about 33.2% of the votes in the first phase and became the leader of the French parliamentary elections; The votes are about five percent more than the left-wing coalition “New People’s Front” which won 28.1 percent of the votes. Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition came third with 21 percent of the vote.