According to the first estimates, at the end of the first round of the ballot, the Les Républicains party and its allies obtained 13.7 % of the votes. The right formation arrives behind the blocks constituted around the outgoing majority of Emmanuel Macron, the new Ecological and Social People’s People’s Union under the aegis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the National Rally of Marine Le Pen.
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It may be the most important ballot in the history of the Les Républicains Party (LR). After her scathing defeat in the presidential election where her candidate Valérie Pécresse who made 4.78 % even managed to get her campaign expenses reimbursed by the State, the right plays in these legislative elections purely and simply his survival. To continue to exist and have a certain weight on the French political spectrum, LR must keep a substantial group in the National Assembly. Because if he had been in agony for several years, wiping defeat on defeat at the national level, the party has remained, until today, the first opposition group with more than a hundred deputies.
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Sunday June 12, in the first round of the legislative election, the right -wing formation – and its allies – brought together according to the estimates of Ipsos -Sopra -Steria for France Télévisions, Radio France, France24/RFI/MCD and LCP National Assembly 13.7 % of the vote. Or a better score that the latest polls gave that placed it rather around 11 %. Unsurprisingly, the right is the fourth political force of the country in votes cast behind the three blocks made up around the outgoing majority of Emmanuel Macron on the one hand, of the new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) under the aegis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the National Rally of Marine Le Pen.
If it is difficult at this point to know the exact number of LR qualified in the second round with this score, the comparison with 2017 can help see a little more clear: five years ago in the first round, LR had totaled 15.77 % of the votes, without all the same the parties stamped various right (1.7 %). At the time the party had qualified 199 candidates.
Limit breakage
Today, this figure seems very illusory. The right knows very well that she will not succeed in having so many candidates in the second round. She still hopes to limit the breakage, mainly betting on the local anchoring of her leavers. In private, Christian Jacob who has officially expanded, not to give any objective so as not to be taken in default in the event of less good results, said to count on a range from 106 to 160 right -wing candidates in the second round.
With 13.7 % on Sunday, some imagine a second round with 100 to 120 qualified candidates. Within the party, it is also noted that with this score, the right deprived the majority of the few points it lacked to widely get the clip. A situation which accredits the hope of some to see their party return to the French political game even with a limited group at the Palais-Bourbon.
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