France’s far-right National Rally (RN) could possibly be headed for an absolute majority within the upcoming parliamentary elections, a high pollster stated Thursday.
Brice Teinturier, deputy director of the Ipsos polling group, informed AFP that the far-right RN was exhibiting a powerful development with a strong citizens behind it.
Three days earlier than the primary spherical of voting on June 30, polls recommend President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance will come third behind the RN and the New Popular Front (NFP) left-wing coalition.
RN chief Jordan Bardella has insisted he’ll solely settle for to be prime minister and lead a authorities if it wins an absolute majority of the 577 seats within the National Assembly after the July 7 second spherical.
The newest Ipsos ballot printed in Le Monde newspaper stated that the RN would win 36 % of the vote, the NFP left-wing coalition 29% and Macron’s alliance simply 19.5.
The RN has “a deep, strong dynamic. We have an electorate there that seems solid to me and it is leading the race,” Teinturier informed AFP in an interview.
Teinturier, considered one of France’s highest-profile polling gurus who frequently seems on TV, stated Ipsos was not making projections of seats earlier than the primary spherical because the figures risked being unreliable.
But he stated the RN’s excessive polling numbers will give it an “extremely powerful advantage” heading into the second spherical which sees run-offs in constituencies the place there was no outright winner the primary time spherical.
The RN “can not only envisage a relative majority, but we cannot exclude, far from it, an absolute majority,” he stated.
Teinturier stated the state of affairs confirmed a political panorama that “had not shifted much” since European elections earlier this month.
In that vote, Macron’s alliance was trounced by the far proper, prompting him to name the snap legislative elections.
Source: www.dailysabah.com