French legislative elections: Highest midday turnout in 43 years • FRANCE 24 English
I’m outside of polling station in what is the first constituency uh of Paris um and uh We’ve uh been inside we’ve spoken to the staff who say 35% have voted uh which is fairly high that also tallies with a very high figure we got from the ministry for the interior at lunchtime said 26.6 3% voted in the first four hours that is up um about 7% on the same time last week now this increase between the first and second round also Tes with things we’re hearing at this polling station the staff who are in charge of Crossing names off the list said they’ve crossed names off the list this week that weren’t crossed off last week in other words people who didn’t vote in the first round are mobilized for the second there are also a few National indicators that suggest that this is a high turnout election uh 460,000 votes cast by those constituents in the uh French voters abroad constituencies as well as uh over as well as a record number of proxies registered to vote on the behalf of those who couldn’t make it today so there is proof that this is an election the French people are far from indifferent to
Midday voter turnout in France’s second round of legislative elections Sunday hit 26.63%, the highest ever recorded in 43 years, FRANCE 24’s Antonia Kerrigan said, reporting from Paris.
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9 comments
Hope the French chose democracy over right wing intolerance
Europe is imploding
Summer and she is wearing turtleneck and leather jacket 😮 France must have cold summers
hi good night
Aha… democracy is scary when people had enough is it not?
Democracy in action in France, bravo! The people speak, the nation adjusts away from the Neoliberal US poodle pro war position of Macron/EU to something more in tune with what the French person, the worker and the intellectual, wishes to see happen for France.
US CIA & MI6 controlled MSM can't present the election as anything but a move to "Far Right" when anyone with open eyes understands the National Front is not what it was 40 years ago. In any case we have turnout, we have honest election, we therefore have democracy. Wanting to run your country for the sake of your own citizens rather than for the sake of the Davos elite is not a negative, it's completely positive.
The French must have the final say about what goes on in Their own country.
Whichever party wins, France is still will still be under the USA Israel leadership. Nothing changes
Left won, 😰😰😰😰! Bad news for Africa! Africa must be ready to fight france on all fronts! Le Pen should have won because Africa would also be free! Melachon is another "Macaroni" 2 who pretends to be our friend, but in reality, wants to loot our resources, 😰😰😰