The French daily almost unanimously agreed that Marina Le Pen’s far-right national rally was the biggest loser in the regional runoff vote over the weekend. It is generally considered that this is a major breakthrough, but it has not had an impact anywhere. At the regional level, the political landscape remains almost unchanged.
The popular daily newspaper The Parisian stated that Le Pen has been “abandoned by the voters”. The left-leaning liberation saw “the national assembly was sent back to the drawing board.”
For the sober business daily Echo, the result of the past two weekends was a simple “Le Pen failure”, even if the party leader himself is not a candidate.
She has always hoped to win in some areas, especially in the industrial wasteland of the north and the ultra-conservative Mediterranean coast. This will strengthen her claim to be Emmanuel Macron’s main challenger in next year’s presidential campaign.
Of course, Le Figaro said, Le Pen’s failure is a big story. But Macron will also limp away from these polls without much comfort.
In view of the very low voter turnout, the right-wing daily has carefully analyzed its analysis. However, despite this, we now have a good understanding of the political landscape when preparing for the presidential campaign.
This landscape is dominated by right-wing Republicans, characterized by scattered socialists, and inevitably one or two ecologists. But Marina Le Pen’s far-right and center-left presidential majority seats are nowhere to be found.
The Centrist Le Monde said that the main lesson of the past two weekends is that the French left, the socialists and their allies still have no leaders.
This paper summarizes the situation by pointing out the re-election of right-wing celebrities (Pecres, Bertrand, Waukez) and the complete failure of the extreme right.
Le Monde stated that the left has managed to keep the five regions it already holds power, but this will not happen because the battle between the parliament and the president is about to begin.
The much-hyped agreement involving the combined electoral power of the left-wing party and its Green Party allies failed to convince voters.
Le Monde also wrote about what it calls “serious failures” in the distribution of election advertisements, that is, information sent by political parties to voters informing them of their plans, propositions and policies.
Ronchin in the northern region found hundreds of envelopes containing election information. Hundreds of people were burned in Haute-Savoie. In central Loire, voters received the first round of the second round of documents when preparing to vote in the second round.
The Ministry of the Interior estimates that 9% of the 44 million envelopes to be distributed before the second round on Sunday were not delivered. The remaining 5 million voters have no clear information about what is at stake.
To quote Republican Party Chairman Christian Jacobs: “This is an unacceptable failure of the national election service and will only help increase the abstention rate.”
Post time: Jun-29-2021