Macron's party takes lead in 1st round parliamentary election: final results

Source: Xinhua| 2017-06-12 23:33:57|Editor: Mu Xuequan
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PARIS, June 12 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron's party The Republic On The Move (LREM) and its ally MoDem emerged first in the parliamentary election's first round on Sunday, with 32.32 percent of the ballots cast, final results released by Interior Ministry showed on Monday.

Alone, LREM garnered 28.21 percent of the votes, making a majority with more than 400 seats in reach for the multiform movement that Macron had created only one year ago.

Overshadowed by record low abstention at 51.29 percent, the outcome of Sunday's vote showed the traditional major parties that dominated the country's political landscape over decades in disarray.

The Socialist Party, which controlled the National Assembly over the past five years, reported just 7.44 percent of the vote.

As to the centre-right party, The Republicans and allied Union of Democrats and Independents secured the second place with 18.8 percent, a lower-than-expected performance that the conservatives targeted to force creation of co-habitation government in which they eyed to have a strong say.

Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) gained 13.2 percent of the vote, according to the ministry.

More than 47 million voters were registered to cast their ballots on Sunday to elect their representation in the 577-member National Assembly, but only 48.74 percent of them turned to polling stations, down from 57.22 percent recorded in 2012.

The election runoff will be held on June 18.

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