Pak Sahafat – The French people are going to the polls for the second time today (Sunday) to determine the fate of a parliament that is set to play a key role in the second fifty years of Emmanuel Macron‘s presidency.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency on Sunday, this is the fourth time in the last 10 weeks that the French have been called to the polls; two rounds of presidential elections on April 10 and 24 and two rounds of parliamentary elections on June 12 and 19.
Today’s election begins at 8 a.m. Paris time throughout France and ends at 6 p.m. in small towns until 8 p.m. In big cities like Paris, it will continue to determine the fate of 577 seats in the National Assembly. The result of the election will be announced tonight.
The results of this election are considered to be somewhat crucial due to the fact that it coincides with the beginning of Macron’s second term in office and gaining a decisive majority for his pro-government parties. Meanwhile, in the first round held last week, the so-called “Macroney” parties came out on top with a very short distance from the so-called “Nops” party coalition.
The New Ecological and Social Popular Union, known as the Nops, consisting of the Invincible France Party, the European Ecology-Greens (EELV), the Communist Party (PC) and the Socialist Party (PS), won 25.6 percent of the vote. To allocate. Jean-Luc Melenchon, one of Macron’s main rivals in the presidential election, is in charge of leading and aligning these parties.
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The “All Together” coalition of the Macron Party called the Republic Forward, the “Democratic Movement” (Modem), the “Horizons” (close to former Prime Minister Edward Philip) and the “Action” of political parties center-right won 25.75 percent of the vote.
The results of the first round of parliamentary elections, which set a record in the history of the Fifth French Republic with the reluctance of the French to participate in the elections, showed that Macron could, at best, have a relative majority in parliament.
Macron’s failure to implement reforms, as well as inaction in the event of a crisis similar to what happened during the Corona epidemic and required strong government and presidential decisions, are two serious threats to Macron’s second term if he fails to win a majority in parliament.
Recent polls suggest that 70 percent of French people oppose Macron’s absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Since the turnout in the second round of each election is usually lower than in the first round, it seems that the turnout of the French in today’s election is another record of their reluctance to go to the polls.