Right Wing Projected to Win 1st Round of French Parliamentary Elections

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Preliminary projections indicate that French President Emmanuel Macronโ€™s party is expected to come third, with around 20.3 percent of the vote.

The right-wing National Rally party is projected to win the largest share of the vote in Franceโ€™s first round of parliamentary balloting on June 30.

Preliminary projections indicate that French President Emmanuel Macronโ€™s party is on track for a defeat in the National Assembly, where 577 seats are up for grabs. Early results show Mr. Macronโ€™s party falling behind both the right-wing party and the left-wing coalition.

According to early exit polling by Ipsos, the National Rally Partyโ€”Franceโ€™s leading right-wing populist partyโ€”is expected to win around 34 percent of the vote. The left-wing New Popular Front coalition is on track for second place, with around 28.1 percent.

Mr. Macronโ€™s party, meanwhile, is expected to come third, with around 20.3 percent of the vote.

This election has drawn an unusually high turnout, with reports that around 60 percent of French voters participated, with a few hours still to go.

However, todayโ€™s results, should exit polls prove accurate, only represent the first round of voting. Races where a candidate failed to garner 50 percent or more of the vote will go to a runoff on July 7.

The results represent the largest right-wing victory in France since the end of World War II, and could represent a political earthquake for the French Republic should the National Rally expand their lead to a majority in the second round of balloting.

Some of those races will include up to three contenders.

Winning a parliamentary majority would enable National Rally leader Marine Le Pen to install her 28-year-old protege, Jordan Bardella, as prime minister. She inherited the party, then called the National Front, from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Addressing a jubilant crowd waving French tricolor flags of blue, white, and red, Ms. Le Pen called on her supporters and voters who didnโ€™t back her party in the first round to push it over the line and give it a commanding legislative majority. That scenario would force Mr. Bardella and Mr. Macron into a power-sharing arrangement. Mr. Macron has said he will not step down before his term expires in 2027.

Byย Joseph Lord

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