French legislative elections: 5pm turnout at 61.4%, highest since 1981 • FRANCE 24 English

French legislative elections: 5pm turnout at 61.4%, highest since 1981 • FRANCE 24 English

as of 5:00 p.m. uh they’ve announced that turnout was at 59.71 per. that’s a very marginal increase on last week and regardless it’s the highest we’ve seen since 1986 so this is a really really really extremely high figure it tallies with what we’ve seen in the polling station where we’ve spent much of the day where staff were telling us that they were crossing names off the list this week uh as votes cast whose names weren’t crossed off last week so that’s people who weren’t mobilized last week who came out this week we’ve also spoken to a lot of people in the street this year we this week sorry we’ve seen a record number of votes by proxy registered we spoke to people who had other proxies vote for them we also spoke to people who were just so galvanized that they signed up to online platforms to uh vote on behalf of strangers that’s how important they felt it was um other indicators nationally show that 460,000 votes were cast by those who live in the French living abroad constituencies uh so this is far form an election uh that the French people are ambivalent towards and the figures speak for themselves and Antonio we do remain under electoral silence laws until the polls close so without getting too much into politics can you just remind us what are some of the potential outcomes of this vote of course uh so when uh all the votes are in and tallied uh we could be looking at various outcomes one of them would be an absolute majority for one group one party uh another would be a relative majority and another would be if no group has really massively set itself apart from the others in several of these uh very possible cases what we would potentially be looking at is a very difficult to govern National Assembly another thing to take into account is that if the leader of the largest party who may become the prime minister is not of the same political family as the president that would put us in an extremely rare situation uh in terms of uh the Democratic process is uh who would have more power would the Prime Minister be more of a a break on the Govern on the president’s power or would the president be more of a break on the Prime Minister enacting that agenda they’ve campaigned on a lot will of course depend on those voters whose first choice candidate backed out um in the second round and those sort of Orphans as the first round as they’re some sometimes being called whether they will turn out to vote sounds like they may beh have and how they’ll vote will they follow instructions given by their first choice candidate uh well we won’t know until this evening the results will be in in just a few hours uh Paris uh polling stations will be late open until 8 whereas most of France they’re closing in just under an hour

French voters turned out en masse Sunday for the second round of parliamentary elections, with turnout at 5pm, three hours before polls close, at its highest in four decades. Interior ministry figures showed 61.4 percent of the electorate had taken part in the poll, which is expected to leave Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) as the largest party in parliament. FRANCE 24’s Antonia Kerrigan reports.
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