{"id":10054,"date":"2021-06-21T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10054"},"modified":"2021-06-21T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:30:00","slug":"macrons-party-crashes-in-the-first-round-of-french-regional-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=10054","title":{"rendered":"Macron\u2019s party crashes in the first round of French regional elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PARIS, June 21 — French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ruling La Republique En Marche (LREM) party failed to achieve success in the first round of regional elections held on Sunday, reported Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated 66.1 per cent of voters shunned polling stations, which was regarded as unprecedented. The abstention rate was 50.09 per cent in 2015 and 53.67 per cent in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the exit polls, LREM’s candidates did not lead the first round in any region of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 15 ministers competed for LREM in the elections, but none of them could garner the number of votes needed to finish the first round ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exit polls showed the centre-right Les Republicains party winning 28.7 per cent of the national vote ahead of the far-right National Rally party with 19.4 per cent, followed by the Socialist Party, the Green party and Macron’s LREM with 10.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elections were initially slated for March but were delayed twice — first by three months and then by another week — due to an exponential rise in coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Held every six years, they will take place in 18 regional presidencies — 13 in metropolitan France and Corsica and five in the overseas territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Mayotte and Reunion — and will elect 1,800 councillors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting will take place in two stages — the first round on June 20 and the second on June 26 — to elect the councillors who in turn will elect the president of the Regional Council, president of the Departmental Council and mayors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The regional polls are taking place a year ahead of presidential elections and are considered a precursor as to who will take control of the Elysee in 2022. Polls have predicted a face-off next year between incumbent President Macron and far-right opposition leader Marine Le Pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron and Le Pen have hit the campaign trail alongside other leaders from the Socialist, centrist, far-left and ecological parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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