{"id":5685,"date":"2024-07-01T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuddy.co.in\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2024-07-01T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:39:09","slug":"right-wing-party-gains-lead-in-france-macron-lags-behind-in-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/?p=5685","title":{"rendered":"Right-wing party gains lead in France, Macron lags behind in presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Paris (Team Newsbuddy): <\/strong><\/em>In France&#8217;s parliamentary elections, the far-right National Rally has gained a lead in the first round, cementing its dominance in French politics and bringing it closer to power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Activists rejoiced as anti-immigrant National Rally leader Marine Le Pen said that &#8220;the Macron faction has been completely wiped out.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Rally is headed for victory with 33.2% of the vote, while the entire left-wing coalition appeared to be lagging behind with 28.1% of the vote and the Macron faction got 21% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28-year-old National Rally leader Jordan Bardella said, &#8220;If the people of France vote for me, I want to be their prime minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far-right parties have never won the first round of national elections in France before. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella are seeking a majority with 289 seats in France&#8217;s 577-seat parliament, the National Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after the second round of elections, the National Rally&#8217;s dream does not seem to be fulfilled. Without a majority, France will see a hung assembly and the National Rally will not be able to fulfill its agenda on tax cuts, immigration and law and order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emmanuel Macron did not have any specific reason to announce elections, but after the National Rally&#8217;s victory in the European elections, he said that this was a &#8220;very responsible solution.&#8221; Now it is proving to be a gamble that can turn the political system upside down.<br>The highest jump in voting percentage was seen&nbsp;since&nbsp;1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (Team Newsbuddy): In France&#8217;s parliamentary elections, the far-right National Rally has gained a lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-newstoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5686,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/5686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}