High participation in first hours of legislative election in France

The participation rate in the French legislative elections, held around twelve o’clock in the morning in metropolitan France, was 25.90%, while at the same time during the 2022 investigation it was 18.43%, as indicated by the Ministry of the Interior.

In 1997, the last expected legislators reached 22.74%. The sentiment around the dissolution of the National Assembly announced by Emmanuel Macron on June 9 and the efforts to investigate it, which could open the way for the arrival of the extreme right to power, seems to be mobilizing the French once again.

Some of the main candidates for France’s legislative elections have already voted. The first to rise was Manuel BombardCoordinator of the left-wing La Francia Insumisa (LFI), who cast his vote after 10:00 local time in Marseille (South).

Just minutes later, the president of the far-right National Regrouping (RN) and the favorite to become the next prime minister in all polls did the same. Jordan BerdellaWho voted electronically in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine), on the outskirts of Paris.

At around 11:30 am he voted for the current Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal

in Vanves (also in the Hauts-de-Seine department), and former Socialist President François HollandeWho is a candidate for deputy in Corrèze.

Not long ago, the former prime minister and Macronism heavyweight did just that Edouard Philippe in Le Havre, a northern city of which he is mayor, and Eric CiottiThe leader of the conservative party The Republicans, who has personally allied himself with the RN against his party’s majority, and who voted against in Nice (southeast).

As is usual in French elections, no one made a statement to the press.

chairman Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte

He plans to cast his vote in the small coastal town of Le Touquet (north).

Marine Le Pen The RN leader also plans to vote in his electoral fiefdom of Hénin-Beaumont in the north, next to the Belgian border.