The building of the Bourbon Palace in Paris, where the lower house of the French parliament sits. File photoPARIS, Jun 12Polling stations opened for voting in the elections to the French National Assembly (lower house of parliament) on Sunday at 8 am local time (09.00 Moscow time). The elections will be held in two rounds — June 12 and 19. They will elect 577 deputies of the National Assembly (lower house of parliament) for a period of five years from almost 6,300 applicants for a deputy mandate. To enter the second round, a candidate must receive at least 12.5% of the votes of registered voters in his constituency. Victory is also possible in the first round, but for this candidate must be supported either by an absolute majority of those who voted, or at least a quarter of registered voters. According to forecasts, it could be as low as 46%. .jpg» />In France, they told who actually infected the EU with anti-Russian hysteria. The first preliminary results will be announced immediately by exit polls. The counting of votes usually takes place quickly, and the official results will be clear in the evening of the same day or on Monday night. The presidential coalition «Together!» (Ensemble!), which unites the Renaissance party founded by French President Emmanuel Macron (previously called Forward, Republic!), the center party Democratic Movement and the centre-right parties Horizons and Act. Also participating in the elections is the left-wing coalition New People's Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), which includes Jean-Luc Mélenchon's Unsubdued France, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Europe-Ecology-Greens party. The far-right parties «National Rally» Marine Le Pen and «Reconquest» Eric Zemmour also take part in the voting. Polls indicated that the main struggle would unfold between the presidential coalition «Together!» and a coalition of the left led by Mélenchon. However, Macron's party may lose its current one-man majority in the lower house.
