The first partial report from the Ministry of the Interior reflects attendance at the polls at 12:00, local time, just 0.55 points higher than in Europe five years ago, in which 50.12 percent of voters exercised their right. those registered.
For this Sunday, 49 million 500 thousand French people were called to vote to elect the 81 MEPs who will represent the country in the 2024-2029 legislature of the European Parliament, which will have 720 seats.
From 8:00 a.m. schools opened in the metropolitan territory until 6:00 p.m., although in several communes they will continue for two more hours, so no results can be released before 8:00 p.m.
Before midnight, the first definitive data should be known in France and in the rest of the 26 member states of the European Union, where more than 370 million people are called to the polls.
On French soil, the heads of the list of the favorite parties have already voted according to the polls to obtain seats in the European Parliament, for which it is necessary to attract at least five percent of the votes.
All the polls gave the nationalist force National Agrupation, identified with the extreme right, a clear winner, with up to 34 percent support, followed by the ruling party Renacimiento and its allies (16) and the Socialist Party/Public Square tandem (14). .
Behind the vanguard trio, the polls showed La Francia Insumisa approaching 10 percent, the conservative party Los Republicanos (six-seven) and the far-right Reconquista and the ecologists barely above the five percent threshold.
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