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Voting by proxy is possible when the citizen cannot easily attend the polling station (reasons include: health problems, the citizen does not live in the voting constituency, away for work or vacations, jailed but has not yet been sentenced and deprived of civic rights etc.) The citizen designates a proxy, who must be a voter from the same commune.
Despite periodic calls for more flexibility or modernization, France doesn’t do mail-in voting, early voting or use voting machines en masse like the United States. President Emmanuel Macron is ...
Legislative elections in France (French: élections législatives en France), or general elections (French: élections générales) per the Constitution's wording, determine who becomes Members of Parliament, each with the right to sit in the National Assembly, which is the lower house of the French Parliament.
The voting takes place by commune except Paris, Marseille and Lyon for which law on the administrative organization of Paris, Marseille, Lyon provides that voting may be by sector. The law also requires equality of counselors and mayors of arrondissements. In 2013, the threshold between majority and proportional voting was lowered to 1000 ...
There were two presidential elections in France during the republican government known as the Fourth Republic (1946–1958). They were held in 1947 and 1953. The president was elected by the Congress of the French Parliament, a joint meeting of both houses of the French Parliament [11] (the National Assembly and the Council of the Republic).
Currently, the President of the French Republic is elected to a five-year term in a two-round election under Article 7 of the Constitution: if no candidate secures an absolute majority (including blank and void ballots) of votes in the first round, a second round is held two weeks later between the two candidates who received the most votes. [3]
To be elected in the first round of voting, a candidate must obtain at least 50% of the votes cast, with a turnout of at least 25% of the registered voters on the electoral rolls. If no candidate is elected in the first round, those who account for in excess of 12.5% (1 ⁄ 8) of the registered voters are entered in the second round of voting ...
Next French legislative election ← 2024 By June 2025 – July 2029 All 577 seats of the National Assembly 289 seats needed for a majority Leader Collective leadership Gabriel Attal Alliance NFP Ensemble Leader's seat – Hauts-de-Seine's 10th Last election 180 159 Seats needed 109 130 Leader Jordan Bardella Vacant [a] Party RN / UDR LR Leader's seat None [b] – Last election 142 39 Seats ...