The Eiffel Tower in Paris. File photoPARIS, Jun 19Absenteeism in the second round of elections in the French National Assembly (lower house of parliament) could be 54%, according to research by Elabe for BFMTV and Express. Polling stations opened for voting in the second round of elections in the French National Assembly (lower house) on Sunday at 8 am local time (9.00 Moscow time). According to the French Ministry of the Interior, the turnout in the second round of elections as of 17.00 local time (18.00 Moscow time) was 38.11%. According to Elabe, only 54% of the French will not vote in the second round of the parliamentary elections. This figure will be higher than in the first round of elections on June 12, when absenteeism was 52.49%. At the same time, in the second round of elections to the National Assembly in 2017, 57.36% of the French did not vote.
Le Pen does not want Macron to impose «his anti-social project» on the country 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. In the second round of the parliamentary elections, the main struggle will unfold between the presidential coalition «Together!» and a coalition of the left led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. According to the results of the first round, which took place on June 12, the coalition «Together!» received 25.71%, the left-wing «New People's Ecological and Social Union» (Nupes) Mélenchon — 25.61%.
