They turned their backs on the ballot boxes in their second round parliamentary elections in France both the Macron faction and the majority of the Melanson faction.
According to a survey by the Harris Institute, about eight out of ten refused to vote in the second round for a candidate from Leppen’s far-right party when their own candidate had not been nominated. Almost half of them, however, preferred to abstain.
In particular, according to the newspaper Le Monde, those who in the first round voted in favor of Melanson’s left-wing coalition and in the second round had to choose between a candidate from his party Emanuel Macron and one from Le Pen, 45% preferred the abstention route. 31%, according to the Athens News Agency, voted in favor of the Macron faction, while a not inconsiderable percentage, 24%, preferred the vote in Lepen.
Respectively, those who in the first round voted in favor of the Macron faction and in the second round had to choose between candidates from Melanson and Marin Le Pen, 48% preferred abstention, compared to 34% who preferred his candidate Jean-Luc Melanson and 18% who preferred Lepen’s candidate.
Also, out of the 108 constituencies fought by Macron and Le Pen, the latter won 62, while in the 62 constituencies where Melanson and Le Pen’s candidates competed, the far right won 33.
Source: News Beast
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