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Despite pollsters’ projections of pro-Macron candidates receiving up to 450 seats (in France’s 577-seat lower house), a record low turnout has left Macron with just 360 seats (but still a massive majority) and Le Pen’s National Front with just 6 seats.
French polling agencies are projecting that President Emmanuel Macron’s new centrist party will have a large majority in the powerful lower house of parliament and a clear mandate to overhaul the way France works and does business. As AP reports, the projections from Sunday’s second-round legislative elections suggest that Macron’s Republic on the Move! party handily beat the traditional left and right parties that have led the National Assembly for decades. The pollsters project that Macron’s candidates and their allies won as many as 360 seats in the 577-seat chamber. That was less than some had expected after its crushing victory in last week’s first-round vote.
With roughly 130 seats, the Republican party is looking at a better result than initially expected: they become the biggest opposition party albeit significantly weaker according to France24.
Pollster Kantar Sofres estimates outcome of second and final round of parliamentary election based on sampling of early votes.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 18, 2017.
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