PARIS –
The French choose today and next week the 577 members of the parliament. The enthusiasm was not very large: at 12 hours was less than 20 percent of the electorate in coming days.
With a opkomstcijfer of 19,24 percent are less people than in 2012, when it 21,06 percent. According to polls, remains around 40 percent or more of the French at home.
Today and next week, 577 mini-elections are fought. In a number of constituencies plays an exciting battle. So there is a big chance that former prime minister Manuel Valls, that the preliminaries within the Parti Socialiste lost, lost to the ultra-left candidate Farida Amradi. Valls announced previously that he was on the list of Macron wanted to, but that was him by La République en Marche denied. The party was clement and presented himself was not a candidate in this area, but that helps the ex-kabinetsleider not.
Marine Le Pen, who lost in the second round of the presidential elections, this time a chance to be in the National Assembly. This succeeded her the previous two times. One of her two current members of parliament, Gilbert Collard, hits the spot, probably at home. He loses in the Gard of ex-stierenvechtster Marie Sara.