{"id":90358,"date":"2024-07-08T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/mapping-how-france-voted\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:52:20","slug":"mapping-how-france-voted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/mapping-how-france-voted\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping How France Voted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/03\/multimedia\/2024-03-29-international-elections-results-france\/2024-03-29-international-elections-results-france-facebookJumbo-v10.png?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mapping How France Voted\" title=\"Mapping How France Voted\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Support for left-wing parties surged unexpectedly in nationwide legislative elections on Sunday, pushing the nationalist, anti-immigration National Rally into third place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The electoral map showed <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/08\/world\/europe\/france-election-key-takeaways.html\" title=\"\">enduring divisions<\/a> \u2014 with Paris and its suburbs voting for the left and center, and the regions in the far north and south along the Mediterranean voting for the far right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The country\u2019s political outlook appeared <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/08\/world\/europe\/france-election-reaction.html\" title=\"\">more muddled than before<\/a>, with three large political blocs, each with a vastly different vision and plan for the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The biggest surprise on Sunday was the triumph of the <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">New Popular Front<\/strong>, a coalition of left-wing parties that is now the dominant force in a bloc of about 190 lawmakers and that has emerged as the lower house\u2019s leading political group.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">The centrist <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">coalition of President Emmanuel Macron<\/strong>, who cast the country into turmoil a month ago by calling the election, was in second place with 150 seats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\">Another shocker was the third-place finish of the <strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">National Rally and its allies<\/strong>, which had been expected to win the most seats, if not an absolute majority, in the 577-member National Assembly, the more powerful lower house.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">France\u2019s left-wing parties and Mr. Macron\u2019s centrist coalition pulled out over 200 candidates from three-way races in districts where the far right had a chance of clinching a seat. Many voters who abhorred the far right then cast their ballot for whoever was left \u2014 even if the candidate was hardly their first choice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/08\/world\/europe\/france-election-maps.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support for left-wing parties surged unexpectedly in nationwide legislative elections on Sunday, pushing the nationalist, anti-immigration National Rally into third place. The electoral map showed enduring divisions \u2014 with Paris and its suburbs voting for the left and center, and the regions in the far north and south along the Mediterranean voting for the far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/03\/multimedia\/2024-03-29-international-elections-results-france\/2024-03-29-international-elections-results-france-facebookJumbo-v10.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9403,45712,2665],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90360,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90358\/revisions\/90360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}