{"id":31026,"date":"2024-06-09T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-projections-put-hard-right-national-rally-well-ahead-in-eu-election\/09\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-09T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:47:56","slug":"first-french-projections-put-hard-right-national-rally-well-ahead-in-eu-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-projections-put-hard-right-national-rally-well-ahead-in-eu-election\/09\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"First French projections put hard-right National Rally well ahead in EU election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 First projected results from France on Sunday put the far-right National Rally party well ahead in the European Union&#8217;s parliamentary election, defeating President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s pro-European centrists, according to French opinion poll institutes.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Le Pen\u2019s anti-immigration, nationalist party is estimated to get around 31-32% of the votes, more than twice the score of Macron&#8217;s Renaissance party that is projected to reach around 15%.<\/p>\n<p>The initial indications are a hard blow for Macron as he tries to lead Europe-wide efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:defend Ukraine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">defend Ukraine<\/a> and boost the EU\u2019s own defenses and industry.<\/p>\n<p>The National Rally\u2019s lead candidate, Jordan Bardella, wants to limit free movement of migrants by carrying out national border controls and dial back EU climate rules. The party no longer wants to leave the EU and the euro, but aims to weaken it from within.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, our compatriots have expressed a desire for change,\u201d Bardella said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmmanuel Macron is tonight a weakened president,\u201d he added, calling for new national legislative elections to be organized.<\/p>\n<p>First projections also show a resurgence of the Socialist Party, with about 14% of the votes. The party campaigned on more ambitious climate policies and protections for European businesses and workers, with about 14% of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>France is electing 81 members of the European Parliament, which has 720 seats in total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/first-french-projections-put-hard-181145303.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) &mdash; First projected results from France on Sunday put the far-right National Rally party well ahead in the European Union&rsquo;s<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/first-french-projections-put-hard-right-national-rally-well-ahead-in-eu-election\/09\/06\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}