France celebrates a small electoral test in Spain

El Periódico

France Celebrate these days a small test electoral In the fifth constituency of the French abroad, which includes the citizens of this country that reside in Space, Portugal, Andorra y Monacoto choose the deputy who must represent them in the National Assembly After last July the Constitutional Council withdrew its seat and disabilities for a year to the previous representative, the centrist Stéphane Vojettaby Accounting irregularities during the June 2024 elections campaign.

With the political instability France lives since the last legislative, convened by Emmanuel Macron After the varapalo suffered in the European ones, with three prime ministers in one year, the streets burned by protests against budgets that seek social cutsthe elections to choose this deputy are raised In national code before the next exam with the polls that will be the municipal of the month of March, unless Macron chose again to dissolve the National Assembly and summon elections.

Since last Friday until Wednesday, voters can exercise their right through Electronic voteOy on Sunday 28 an urn. The second round, which will be held if no candidate achieves more than 50% of the votes, is scheduled for October 12 (October 3 to 8 for electronic vote).

There are a total of 16 candidatesalthough those who have the most possibilities are, from left to right, Martha Peciña (France insumisa), Guillaume Horn (Socialist party), Nathalie Coggia (Renaissance, Macron’s party), Christophe sogey the funes (Republicans) and Johana maurel (National regrouping), and are called both the French residents in these four countries and those citizens with dual nationality. The latter, in fact, suppose the 80% of the electoral base In some countries, such as Spain.

The Socialist Party, alone

In these elections, the Socialist Party appears alone after seven years going in coalition with other leftist forces in this constituency. “Since 2018, the PS has always been behind others, sacrificing. It is time to put us in front and represent the left after the failures of insumisa France and the environmentalists,” he explains to El Periódico Horn, who considers that the current political situation in the hexagon can benefit it at the polls. “A window of opportunity has been opened,” he adds, that he could mark the path of what happens in the next legislative.

The candidate of the party of Marine Le PenJohana Maurel, coincides. In his opinion, the trend Let the polls mark in this election can be extrapolated nationwide. “The French have understood that they are very badly represented,” he says to this newspaper, after loading the previous deputy for breaching his promises to improve administrative acts for expatriates, establishing a parallelism with the breaches of the national government. “Macron does not listen to the voice of the people (…). He must become aware and summon presidential elections,” ditch.

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