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Turnout falls slightly at 12 noon in the French legislative elections compared to 2017

MADRID, 12 Jun.

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Turnout falls slightly at 12 noon in the French legislative elections compared to 2017

MADRID, 12 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The French Ministry of the Interior has reported that participation in the legislative elections held this Sunday has reached 18.43 percent at 12:00 p.m., 0.8 points less than that registered in 2017.

Five years ago attendance was 19.24 in mainland France and on this occasion everything points to abstention once again being decisive for the results. The lower the turnout, the less likely it is that the election will be decided in the first round, since in addition to achieving 50 percent of the vote, turnout must reach 25 percent.

This Sunday's vote comes seven weeks after the victory of centrist Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the French presidential election. Macron beat the far-right Marine Le Pen with 28.01 percent abstention, an unprecedented figure since the election of Georges Pompidou in 1969.

Now the left has mobilized in the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union coalition (known as Nupes) and aspires to avoid a new majority of Macron's Republic on the Move party to force what is traditionally known in France as cohabitation: a president of a party and a government of a different sign supported by a legislative majority.