Early Returns On French Elections--Macron Wipeout

This is the best graphic I’ve seen for English speakers:

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BREAKING:

French far-right wins first round of parliamentary election - exit poll

1:13 PM · Jun 30, 2024

What it all means is anyone’s guess—except that people in France and lots of other places in the West are very unhappy. And deeply divided.

Here’s Breitbart, but I have no way to assess this. As the article states, these are exit polls from the first round. They’re significant, but it will be a while yet before actual seats held can be determined:

Macron Wipeout in Snap Election he Called, Le Pen Surges and Could Take Outright Majority
Breitbart ^ | 06/30/2024 | Oliver JJ. Lane

The Parliamentary faction of President Emmanuel Macron has been utterly destroyed in the unexpected snap election he called just three weeks ago, with Le Pen’s Party looking to nearly treble its seat holding.

Polling has closed in France for the first round of this week-long Parliamentary election. While actual seat distribution won’t be fully known, the exit polls following this knock-out round have given a confident answer that Marine Le Pen’s nationalist-populist National Rally (RN) won the day. Per the exit polls, her faction gained 34 per cent of the vote, while the left-wing coalition founded for the purpose of this election picked up 29 per cent, and President Macron’s Ensemble looks at just 20 per cent.

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It’s possible that this disaster could force Macron to resign but, whatever the outcome, it looks like a blow to the establishment—the country is looking for new leadership.