French National Assembly Election Second round of voting starts

Xinhua News Agency, Paris, June 19 (Reporter Tang Yan Xu Yongchun) The second round of voting for the French National Assembly was fully launched in France on the 19th. More than 1,100 candidates from multiple political parties will compete for 572 seats of 577 national parliaments. Previously, the first round of elections held on the 12th had been decided.

There are more than 48 million registered voters in France. Like the first round of voting, French local voting starts at 8 am on the 19th of the local time. The voting station is closed at 18:00 on the same day. Large cities such as Paris can be closed to 20:00. Due to jet lag and other reasons, some French provinces, overseas and overseas French people living overseas have voted in advance.

The French Ministry of the Internal Citizens previously announced that in the first round of voting, the middle school alliance supported President Macron "together" to get a valid voting of 25.75%, ranking first. The second to fourth ranking is the left -wing league (25.66%), where the leader of the extreme left party, "Unintellically French", the "National Alliance" (18.68%) led by Marina Le Pen, and the right -wing Republican Party (10.42%).

The French National Assembly election is also called legislative elections. Whether the ruling party can occupy an absolute majority in the National Assembly will affect the appointment of the French Prime Minister's candidate and the composition of the government, and it will also affect the direction and efficiency of the ruling party's future administration.

Among the 577 constituencies in France, 1 National Parliament was generated in each constituency, which was voted directly by voters in this constituency for 5 years. In the first round of voting, candidates can be elected by getting more than half of the votes; candidates who have not obtained half of the votes but received 12.5%of the registered voters in this constituency will enter the second round of voting, and those who get the highest votes are elected. (Participate in the reporter: Xing Jianqiao)

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