Absentee voters in France scramble to make their voices heard in high-stakes legislative election
Tuesday, 18 June 2024 Voters who don’t expect to be able to cast ballots themselves are scrambling to make their voices heard in France’s high-stakes legislative election. They're signing up in their hundreds of thousands to hand their voting rights to loved ones and friends. The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that it counted 410,000 such requests in the first week after French President Emmanuel Macron’s shock June 9 announcement that he was dissolving France’s National Assembly, parliament’s lower house. That bombshell followed a humbling defeat by the far-right National Rally party in European Parliament elections. The ministry said the number is 6.5 times more than it registered for the same week-long period in the last legislative elections in 2022.
Britain Overtakes France , to Reclaim Stock Market Crown.
The overall value of listings on the
London Stock Exchange (LSE) reached
$3.18 trillion on June 17, BBC reports.
That number surpassed the
$3.13 trillion value of companies listed
in France, according to Bloomberg data. .
While both...
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France must "stay away from extremes" in upcoming legislative election, French basketball star Victor Wembanyama says, three days ahead of the first round of voting expected to be won by the far right.
Macron Says He Won’t Resign, , ‘Whatever the Result’ of France’s Election.
On June 11, the French president said he
won't resign, no matter what happens in the upcoming parliamentary..
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Tuesday, 18 June 2024
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