French Right-wing Party Wins First Round Of Elections, Overthrows Macron Coalition

The leader of the far-right French party National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen. (X @MLP_officiel)

JAKARTA - France's right-wing party, National Rally (RN) won the first round of the 2024 French elections on Sunday 30 June local time.

Quoting France24, Monday, July 1, the party led by Le Pen has won the most votes in three decades since the election was held in the Western European country.

RN won a landslide victory with the achievement of skyrocketing votes in the legislative election far from the result of the coalition of parties supporting President Emmanuel Macron.

Based on the fast results of the vote count of the Ipsos-Talan poll, the RN coalition Party received 33.2 percent, ahead of the left-wing party of the New Popular Front (NFP) with 28.1 percent.

Meanwhile, Macron's Ensemble Alliance is in third place with 21 percent of the votes, followed by conservative groups Les Republicains and their partners with 10 percent.

Based on this data, the far-right party will receive 230-80 seats in the National Assembly. That figure is only a small difference if you win with an absolute majority of 289 seats.

This achievement is not a decisive victory, because the second round of the 2024 French elections will be held again on 7 July.