French overseas and foreign voters began voting today in the second round of parliamentary elections, the outcome of which will determine President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvers, especially in terms of reforms for the next five years. Two months after his re-election to the far right, Macron, a liberal center-right leader, hopes to regain an absolute majority […]
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Bloomberg: ‘Investment guide’ for the second round of parliamentary elections in France tomorrow
France’s CAC 40 fell this week amid a global stock slump amid fears of a recession. Those who have invested in French stocks have one more thing to worry about this weekend, according to Bloomberg. In the event that President Emanuel Macron fails to win an absolute majority of seats in the National Assembly in […]
France: Absolute parliamentary majority is a difficult equation for Macron
A few hours before the end of the election campaign in view of the second round of the parliamentary elections in France, the latest polls come to the same conclusions as the previous ones. Emanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in April, will come first in the parliamentary elections the day after tomorrow, but […]
The next prime minister and the ‘agreement’ K. Mitsotaki- A. Tsipras
By Niki Zorba A return to political normality marks, among others, the strong bipolarity. He is the one who was the first to disrupt the era of memoranda with the collapse of PASOK and the rise of SYRIZA, he is the one who immediately after the exit from the memoranda moved to reconstitute it. The […]
Oscar De Pellegrin: “I, the first mayor with disabilities in Italy”
June 14, 1984: an accident at work leads him to watch the world from a wheelchair. Exactly thirty-eight years later he takes everything back, starting from the end to get to the beginning. Oscar De Pellegrin, 59 years old, former Paralympic athleteis the first mayor with disabilities in Italy. “When it happened I was twenty […]
Macron is asking the French to give him a strong parliamentary majority
Speaking at the Paris airport shortly before leaving for Romania, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the country’s internal affairs for the first time since Sunday’s first round of parliamentary elections, urging citizens to come to the polls. ballot boxes in the second round next Sunday to give a “strong majority” to the “Together!” that supports […]
Who is Damiano Tommasi, the former footballer who could become mayor of Verona
For now it is only an exit poll, but with a sensational result in a city, Verona, which the center-left has not governed for 15 years and in a region that is a stronghold of the center-right like the Veneto. The mayoral candidate of the turning point is the one that most did not expect: […]
Referendum, collapsed turnout: why so few have gone to vote?
The prediction was easy if not obvious. The quorum in the referendum on justice has not been reached and consequently the consultation is not valid. The stake stopped at 20.8%. It is not even new. In the last 25 years only in 2011 was the quorum reached, to find another one we have to go […]
Parliamentary elections France: Melanson marginal lead in the first round, but Macron first in seats
LAST UPDATE: 23:06 Jean-Luc Melanson’s center-left alliance NUPES (New Popular Ecological and Social Union) with a marginal lead of 25.7% is given by the exit poll of the Ifop-Fiducial Institute. Emanuel Macron’s “Together” party is just a stone’s throw away, with 25.6% of the vote. Third comes the “National Alarm” of Marine Le Pen, who […]
French parliamentary elections: Countdown to the results of the first round
LAST UPDATE: 20:58 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 […]
