Agreements to stop the extreme right
In this context, with the rise of the far right, the New Popular Front and the Macronists have reached an agreement to face Marine Le Pen in more than 200 constituencies in the second round of the elections. This means that more than 200 candidates from different parties have given up participating in the second round to avoid the dispersion of the vote and prevent the far-right National Rally from obtaining the absolute majority, which they already achieved in the first round last Sunday.
Bardella accuses the opposition of not having a project
Bardella highlights that behind the strategy of the left and the right of withdrawing candidates to prevent them from obtaining an absolute majority after the second round there is no project, only the impediment of governing. “The only project and the only ambition that all my opponents have in these elections is to prevent me from winning,” says Bardella in an interview published this Wednesday by Le Figaro, an attitude that seems “a little light considering the economic and social context.” , security and immigration that France passes through”.
What remains to be decided?
Of the 577 National Assembly seats at stake, 79 were already assigned last Sunday: 39 for the National Rally, 31 for the New Popular Front, 2 for Juntos, 2 for the Center, 1 for the Republicans and 1 for the Left. Now there are 501 constituencies in play: National Group came in first position in 218; the New Popular Front, at 128; Together, in 68; The Republicans, at 19; the Left, at 11; the Right, at 8; the Center, in 3; the regionalists, in 3; and the various and other extreme rightists, in one each. It is estimated that Le Pen’s party will obtain between 260 and 310 representatives, while the leftist forces would obtain between 115 and 145 deputies, and the Macronists would obtain between 90 and 120.
