Macron's party said, right wing will destroy France
Saturday, 29 June 2024
The general election campaign in France is over. French President Emmanuel Macron's party has appealed not to support the far-right party National Rally.
But it seems that voters can give a historic mandate to the National Rally in the parliamentary elections.
The first round of elections will be held in France on 30 June 2024. The second round of elections will be held on 7 July 2024.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has warned that if voters vote for the National Rally, a wave of hatred and aggression may come. But the party of Marine Le Pen and 28-year-old Jordan Bardella has been shown ahead in the opinion poll.
However, the right-wing National Rally has rejected the allegations of racism against it. But the question is whether it will get enough votes to form the government on its own.
In early June 2024, President Emmanuel Macron suddenly dissolved the Parliament and announced mid-term elections.
President Macron announced parliamentary elections at a time when the far-right National Rally party got a big success in the European Parliament elections.
Announcing the elections, Macron appealed to the citizens of his country not to give importance to the fundamentalists.
How are elections held in France?
In these elections, 577 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, will be elected. This house makes the laws of the country.
The members of the upper house of Parliament, the Senate, are elected by the National Assembly and local authorities together.
On June 30, 2024, votes will be cast in all 577 parliamentary constituencies in the mainland of France and the inhabited areas and departments away from France.
French citizens living abroad can also vote in these elections. One member of parliament is elected from each district.
All seats will be re-elected on 7 July 2024, in which voters will have to choose one of the two candidates who got the most votes in the first round.
Candidates who get more than 12.5 percent of the votes in the first round can enter the next round of elections.
In such a situation, there is usually a contest between two or three candidates for each seat in the second round of voting.
To get a majority in Parliament, a party or coalition has to win 289 seats.
