Candidates in the runoff of French parliamentary elections are
hitting the campaign trail to try to lure voters to cast ballots next
weekend after a record abstention rate in the first round and a likely
sweep by President Emmanuel Macron's new party.
The Interior
Ministry said on Monday that less than half of registered voters cast
ballots a day earlier. Those who did gave Macron's the Republic on the
Move party 28 percent of the vote — more than 12 points ahead of the
closest rival, the mainstream conservatives.
Marine's Le Pen's far-right National Front fell flat with 13 percent of the vote.
Macron's
rivals fear the elections will produce a virtual lack of opposition to
counter an all-powerful president. Projections show pro-Macron
candidates dominating parliament's 577-seat lower house.
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