218 candidates withdrew from the second round of the French parliamentary elections

Following the victory of the far-right party “National Community” led by Marine Le Pen in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, 218 candidates for representation in the French parliament from the democratic and leftist parties were excluded from the second round. They canceled this election.

According to the morning report of the TASS news agency on Wednesday morning, 218 candidates for the French parliament from the democratic and left-wing parties have withdrawn from participating in the second round of the French parliamentary elections in favor of other candidates of their party who won more votes in the first round of these elections. They gave.

With the aim of using all imaginable strategies to defeat the candidates of the far-right party led by Le Pen, these representatives took action, so that by removing themselves from the election cycle, they could cause their votes to go to the candidates of their own party. be assigned.

They hope that by doing this, they will be able to create a situation where the candidates of the far-right party of the National Assembly, despite their victory in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, will lose to the candidates of the democratic and left-wing parties in the second round of these elections. lose the chance to sit on the seats of the French parliament.

Based on the results of the first round of the French parliamentary elections, it has been determined that 34.2 percent of the voters supported Le Pen and her party (National Assembly Party). The three major French political blocs are competing in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections. They included the far-right “National Community” party led by Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, the coalition of moderate parties led by Emmanuel Macron called “Together for the Republic” and the “New Popular Front” coalition, which consists of left and center-left parties. and the greens.

According to the results of the parliamentary elections announced by the Ministry of the Interior of France, the coalition of leftist parties “New Popular Front” of France, after Le Pen’s party, won 29.1% of the votes, which included the “Rebellious France” parties. (LFI), “Socialist Party” (PS), “Communist Party” (PCF), “European Environmental Greens” (EEVL) and “Radical Party”. “Afqha” was also able to allocate only 21.5% of the votes and settle for the third place.

The first stage of the French parliamentary elections was held on Sunday, and the second stage of the French parliamentary elections is scheduled to be held next Sunday (July 17), and only candidates who received more than 12.5% ​​of the votes in the first stage made it to the second round of the elections. They won.

This month’s European Parliament elections not only prompted the French president to call for early parliamentary elections, but also provided clues about how the far-right is rapidly gaining ground as the leading contender and the main concerns of French voters. In the European Parliament elections on June 9, the National Assembly party led by Marine Le Pen won first place in 93% of the 35,000 French communes, which means 80% of the parliamentary constituencies.