In France, the Left-wing new popular front coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of Parliamentary elections, putting them on track for an unexpected win over the far right national rally party.
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00:00In France, the left-wing New Popular Front coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of parliamentary elections,
00:06putting them on track for an unexpected win over the far-right National Rally Party.
00:10More than 32 million French citizens participated in the parliamentary run-off elections to elect
00:15501 out of the 577 seats that make up the country's National Assembly.
00:20According to experts, if the electoral body confirms the turnout data of the last round, it will be a figure not seen since 1997.
00:27During the first round, 76 deputies had been elected, 39 of them representatives of the far-right National Rally Party.
00:34Following the results, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would offer his resignation to President Macron.
00:45We are not ready to enter into prayers with his departure to make combinations,
00:50especially after having shared tirelessly after seven years his policy of social mistreatment,
01:01of ecological denunciation.
01:08The French people, I come to confirm the good reasons in which we must do especially after the vote spoke,
01:15after which Popular Front, despite all the challenges of all the defamations of all the insults,
01:24we have the victory today that the people have given us.
01:30Coalition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon stressed that President Emmanuel Macron has a duty to call on the New Popular Front to govern.
01:38He has to admit his defeat without trying to manipulate or change it in any way the Prime Minister must.
01:53Who never received the confidence of the National Assembly comes from leading the campaign lost by his party and received a massive popular challenge vote.
02:01The President must and has a duty to call the New Popular Front to govern.
02:16The Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Olivier Fauré, assured that it is time to continue building the nation.
02:23The danger of the far right of the national grouping was confronted. We must continue to fight on the Great Axis.
02:37It is time to continue building the nation. There is a moment before and after this July.
02:46In the coming days, it will be the role of the Popular Front, and of this our center, and the socialist family, to reform a collective project of our country.
03:06Leader of the National Rally Party, Jordan Bardella, thanked the people for their participation and serenity before the election results.
03:13The French people have spoken, marking this election with a historical participation rate.
03:23French people have honored democracy. I want to thank the voters of the national grouping
03:30and its allies for the patriotic attitude they expressed. I thank them for their mobilization,
03:38constancy but above all serenity in the face of this result.
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