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Turnout was 72%, the lowest in a presidential election run-off since 1969. [5] Le Pen conceded defeat after exit projections became available. The presidential election was followed by the 2022 French legislative election, held on 12–19 June, to elect the 577 members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament.
In the 2024 European Parliament election in France, the decline of the LR vote was reflected by François-Xavier Bellamy obtaining 7.2%, after Valérie Pécresse only obtained 4.78% in the 2022 presidential election. The repeated underperformance questioned the party's future.
After a short campaign, begun only 38 days before the country was due to go to the polls on 10 April 2022, Macron topped the first round of the French presidential election with 27.8% of the votes, well ahead of Le Pen who finished 2nd with 23.2% of the votes.
He ran for president in 2012, 2017 and 2022, improving his score each time. ... after preliminary results of the second round of the French parliamentary elections, in Paris, France, 07 July 2024 ...
Bertrand served as a minister under the conservative presidencies of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy and took part in the Republicans' primary contest ahead of the 2022 presidential election.
French President Emmanuel Macron could awake — if he has slept at all — with clipped wings on Monday morning. The high-stakes second round of the legislative election on Sunday will almost ...
The Fifth French Republic entered a period of unprecedented political instability after the 2024 French legislative election organized by President Emmanuel Macron in June 2024, which resulted in a hung parliament with the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) leading a plurality of seats.
Referenda may also be called to consult the French citizenry directly on a particular question, especially one which concerns amendment to the Constitution. France elects on its national level a head of state – the president – and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term (previously, seven years), directly by the citizens.