«A verdict without appeal», the clear aspiration of the French «for change». These are the words of Jordan Bardella, prime minister candidate of the Rassemblement National, on the results of the first round of the elections which in France marked the victory of the far-right party. Marine Le Pen's twenty-eight-year-old dolphin speaks of "unprecedented hope throughout the country". "If you give me your trust" in the second round "I will be the prime minister of all", underlined Bardella, according to whom Sunday's vote will be among the most "decisive in the entire history of the Fifth Republic".
“Democracy has spoken,” Marine Le Pen then declared, announcing to her cheering supporters in the Henin-Beaumont headquarters that she had been re-elected as a deputy in the first round, while the polls were released showing her party as largely victorious (with approximately 34%). "The French - he continued - have demonstrated their desire to turn the page after 7 years of contemptuous and corrosive power." The vote with the Rassemblement National in the lead is «a sign of confidence that honors us and imposes duties on us».
For the second round he called for an absolute majority.
«We have begun to cancel the Macronian block. Tonight is the first stage of a march towards political alternation to carry out the reforms the country needs."
"In front of the Rassemblement National, the time has come for a broad, clearly democratic and republican union for the second round", replied the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in a statement transmitted from the Elysée after the outcome of the vote, and furthermore recalled the fact that «the high participation in the first round of these political elections demonstrates the importance of this vote for all our compatriots and the desire to clarify the political situation» in the country. Their democratic choice commits us", underlines the president, whose party placed third, behind Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National and the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire coalition.
The final turnout was 65.5 percent of those eligible.
(Unioneonline)
