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The announcement of the first results of the invalid elections of the French parliamentary elections is scheduled at 9 pm Greek time.
Prior to the opening of the ballot box, according to the latest election polls, there were two main political formations claiming the upper hand. The first (the so-called “Renaissance”) is led by the recently re-elected president of the country, Emanuel Macronwho represents his space liberal, pro-European Democratic Center.
The other formation is a broad left, center-left alliance under him Jean-Luc Melanson which includes his party, “Unruly France”, the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the Greens.
In fact, according to a poll cited by the website La Libre, which took place today, the center-left alliance of Melanson has between 25.7% and 25.8%, while the formation of Macron follows with a very small difference taking 25% of the votes. Marin Le Pen’s far-right formation has 19.3%.
However, a sure “winner” seems to be the abstention, as all the measurements so far show that it will rise to record percentages from 2002, as it is expected to range between 52.5% and 53%. That is, the turnout is expected to be even at 47%, ie below the. Of the country’s electorate.
More specifically, at 5 pm French time at noon, the turnout was 39.42%. This percentage is the lowest since 2002, ie for 20 years. For example, in the previous parliamentary elections in 2017, the turnout at the same time was 40.75%.
Since 2002, the participation has been continuously declining as from 64.42% (in 2002) it fell to 48.7% in 2017, following a continuously declining trend throughout the interim period.
Source: Capital
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