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Julien Robin, Doctorant en science politique, Université de Montréal

French elections: ‘Power will shift from the presidential palace to the National Assembly and the Senate’

The second round of French parliamentary elections on 7 July 2024 was a tense affair. Against all expectations, the left/progressive New Popular Front (Nouveau Front Populaire, NFP) won with 182 seats, followed by Macron’s party with 168 seats, and in third place, the far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN) with 143 seats. Julien Robin, a doctoral student in political science specialising in French parliamentary life, analyses the results.


The Conversation France: What do the results of the second round of the legislative elections tell us?

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