Pak Sahafat – The results of opinion polls show that an increase in abstentions and a decrease in the turnout in the 2022 French parliamentary elections could reach a historic record in the first round.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency on Friday, According to a survey conducted by the Odoxa-Backbone Consulting Institute for Le Figaro only 46% of French people go to the polls in this round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, June 12.
This is about three percent less than in 2017 with a participation rate of 48.70 percent.
The report notes that turnout in the first round of the French parliamentary elections could reach its lowest level since 1958. Le Figaro adds that turnout in the French parliamentary elections has been steadily declining since 1993. At that date, the participation rate was 68.93%, which represents a 20% decrease in participation over about 30 years.
In 1978, the participation rate even reached 83.25%, which is the highest participation rate in the Fifth French Republic.
Fans Russell, Yannick Jado and Anne Hidalgo were the most likely to abstain, with 58 percent. Abstentions of supporters of figures who voted for Jean-Luc Melenchon in the 2022 presidential election are projected at 41 percent.
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The prevailing conditions also strongly affect the voters of Marine Le Pen with a forecast of 52% and Eric Zemour with a forecast of 46%.
Emmanuel Macron’s voters are ultimately the ones who will have the least chance of abstaining at 36.
The report adds that the French are not so captive to the parliamentary elections and only 29% say they are very interested in it; A figure that has decreased by 4% in 2 weeks and compared to 2017, shows a decrease of eight units.
The French National Assembly elections are scheduled for June 12 and 19.
With 577 members in the next French parliament, winning 289 seats by the parties is considered an absolute majority.
In this way, Macron will be able to have all the power of a president only if his party wins the election decisively and gains a majority.
Otherwise, he, who becomes the first French president in 20 years to extend his five-year term, will be forced to share power with the party-elected prime minister and the majority coalition in parliament.