The new president Emmanuel Macron voted in France in Le Toquet and so did the prime minister Edouard Philippe, in Le Havre. The French cast ballots in the second round of elections to form the Assemblée nationale, the equivalent of our Chamber of Deputies. According to Ansa data, the second electoral round at 17pm marks a vertical drop in turnout to 35,33%, against 40,75% in the first round a week ago, according to data released by the Ministry of the Interior.
The turnout of 35,33% at 17pm, according to pollsters, portends a new negative record for the closing of the polls. By mid-afternoon, in 2012, more than 10% of the voters had voted (46,42%), in 2007 49,58%.
However, President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique en Marche party seems to be on course for a landslide victory. The latest polls give Marche between 440 and 470 seats. The entire opposition should divide up the remaining 100: half to the Républicains, just over twenty to the Socialists who would be decimated compared to the more than 300 seats obtained in previous policies, around ten to Jean-Luc Melenchon's left-wing radicals, the rest - from one to 4 – to the Front National. A complete replacement of the political class in France is therefore taking shape, sweeping away the two "historic" parties: the socialists for the centre-left and the républicains for the centre-right.
