PARIS, June 18 — A final flurry of polls yesterday ahead of French parliamentary elections this weekend suggested President Emmanuel Macron’s allies would emerge as the biggest...
PARIS, June 18 — A final flurry of polls yesterday ahead of French parliamentary elections this weekend suggested President Emmanuel Macron’s allies would emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly but possibly short of a majority.
“The vote is extremely open and it would be improper to say that things are settled one way or the other,” NUPES leader Jean-Luc Melenchon told reporters yesterday as he campaigned in Paris with his EELV green party allies. NUPES candidates will need working-class and young voters to head to the polls in large numbers to stand any chance tomorrow after they abstained at record levels last weekend.Yesterday was the last day of legal campaigning, with all political activity banned from midnight and Saturday a day of calm before voting gets under way.
They pointed to a record heatwave that has struck France this week as another reason to reject the 44-year-old president, who they see as doing too little to combat climate change. “If you compare the first round of presidential elections to the first round of the parliamentary elections, you find that Macron has lost about four million voters,” he said.The first round of the election on June 12 painted an inconclusive picture, with Ensemble and NUPES neck-and-neck on around 26 per cent of the popular vote each.
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