France, the Morning After — a Reason for All the Cynicism

It took 70,629 votes to elect to the Assembly a rightist of the National Rally and only 38,461 to elect a leftist of the New Popular Front.

Ludovic Marin, pool via AP, file
President Macron and the French prime minister when he was the education minister, Gabriel Attal, at Arras, October 13, 2023. Ludovic Marin, pool via AP, file

In the French general election’s second round, the right-wing National Rally and its smaller associates garnered 10.1 million votes nation-wide — 37 percent of the voters. Yet they won only 143 seats out of 577 in the National Assembly. 

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