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FRENCH PARTIES SCRAMBLE TO STRIKE SECOND-ROUND ALLIANCES AFTER
NATIONAL RALLY TOPS FIRST-ROUND RESULTS  
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July 1, 2024
Morning Star
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_ Over 300 constituencies could face three-way run-offs unless
candidates withdraw by 6pm tomorrow _

A member of the France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party speaks at
Republique square during a protest against the National Rally party,
which came out strongly ahead in first-round legislative elections,
June 30, 2024, in Paris,

 

FRENCH non-fascist parties are scrambling to strike deals to put up
just one candidate against the National Rally in next weekend’s
election, after it topped polls in the first round.

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party received 9,374,454 votes, or 29.24
per cent, according to official figures, slightly less than the 34 per
cent predicted in exit polls. It enters the second round in 485 of
France’s 577 parliamentary seats, more than any other party.

Yet it was only just ahead of the left-wing New Popular Front’s
8,974,463 votes (27.99 per cent). The left alliance has qualified for
446 run-offs, but must now determine how many to stand in.

Candidates receiving over 12.5 per cent of the registered vote enter
the second round regardless of whether they made the top two.
Ordinarily few constituencies see three candidates pass this
threshold, but this time more than 300 did.

Seventy-six constituencies will not proceed to a second round as their
winning candidate bagged over half the vote — almost all for
National Rally (39) or the Popular Front (32).

Candidates can withdraw up to 6pm tomorrow, with the Popular Front
indicating it would advise those placed third in round one to leave
the field to concentrate the anti-fascist vote.

But while President Emmanuel Macron called for a “Republican
alliance” on similar grounds, party officials hinted this would not
include candidates from the largest party within the Popular Front —
Jean-Luc Melenchon’s France Unbowed. Mr Macron’s electoral bloc
has qualified in 319 constituencies.

His former prime minister Edouard Philippe said no second-round votes
should go either to National Rally or France Unbowed, while Finance
Minister Bruno Le Maire, slammed Mr Melenchon’s socialist party as
“a danger to the nation.”

Marine Tondelier of the Green Party, which along with France Unbowed,
the Communist Party and Socialist Party forms the Popular Front,
slammed Mr Le Maire’s “cowardly and privileged” attitude, saying
it would open the door to a far-right prime minister in a week’s
time.

On the right, National Rally called for candidates of the traditional
centre-right Republicans, who have split over whether to ally with Ms
Le Pen, to withdraw to give it a clear run against the left.

* NUPES; French Parliamentary Elections; Insoumise;
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* Emmanuel Macron
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* Marine Le Pen
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* Jean-Luc Mélenchon
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* Popular Front
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* far right
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