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It should be well attended, but I don’t know if everyone will play along and come out to vote,
said nurse Cassandre Cazaux This is the highest level since the 1981 legislative elections,
Mathieu Gallard, research director at the Ipsos polling institute, said on X (formerly Twitter). As long as we have a choice, it’s better to go and vote
I don’t recognise my country anymore,
Yielding any power to it means nothing less than taking the risk of seeing everything that has been built and conquered over more than two and a half centuries gradually being undone,
We vote by default, for the least worse option,
People don’t like what has been happening,
said Cynthia Justine, a 44-year-old voter in Paris It is important for me because I am a woman and we haven’t always had the right to vote,
Macron will likely push for support from centrist parties to put forwards a candidate of his choosing for prime minister, but the parties would be unlikely to provide their support as his party is projected to perform very poorly,
The market has reacted negatively to the election uncertainty, with French equities underperforming and the France-Germany 10-year yield spread widening,
Peter Garnry, head of Strategy at Saxo Bank, said in a note Monday In all cases, this will result in heightened political uncertainty and instability. It will also result in backtracking and changes to announced policy plans amid repeated negotiating and consensus building, creating regulatory uncertainty for businesses,
As with the 2022 elections, no party or bloc is likely to secure enough seats to form a majority government, although some polls give the RN an outside chance of doing so. The next government is highly likely to require some form of negotiation between different parties,
George Dyson, senior analyst at Control Risks said in analysis Monday Victory is within our grasp, so let’s seize this historic opportunity and get out and vote
she wrote on social media If you have a very high level of participation you might have a third or fourth party that is getting into the struggle. So then of course there's a risk of split voting and we know that the split vote favours the National Rally,
We are going to win an absolute majority,
said Le Pen in a newspaper interview on Wednesday, predicting These are not easy elections, the results are very uncertain, and the repercussions could be serious for society,
said Julien Martin, a 38-year-old architect in the southwestern city of Bordeaux It’s a deeply dicey move and difficult to do it, but the RN could try to hold up funds for [French] troops in Ukraine,
And the idea of ‘rounding up’ militant Muslims as a ‘danger to the state’ is not that far-fetched,
veteran Telegraph correspondent Anne-Elisabeth Moutet told Newsmax, recalling that after the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by a militant Islamist after showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad as an example of free speech I think it's even more important right now to fight against hatred in general, in all its forms,
said 19-year-old student Themis Hallin-Mallet I intend to take back control of immigration in our country,