00:00In France, the left-wing New Popular Front coalition won the most seats in the second voting round of parliamentary elections,
00:06putting them on track for an unexpected win over the far-right National Rally Party.
00:10More than 32 million French citizens participated in the parliamentary run-off elections to elect
00:15501 out of the 577 seats that make up the country's National Assembly.
00:20According to experts, if the electoral body confirms the turnout data of the last round, it will be a figure not seen since 1997.
00:27During the first round, 76 deputies had been elected, 39 of them representatives of the far-right National Rally Party.
00:34Following the results, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said he would offer his resignation to President Macron.
00:45We are not ready to enter into prayers with his departure to make combinations,
00:50especially after having shared tirelessly after seven years his policy of social mistreatment,
01:01of ecological denunciation.
01:08The French people, I come to confirm the good reasons in which we must do especially after the vote spoke,
01:15after which Popular Front, despite all the challenges of all the defamations of all the insults,
01:24we have the victory today that the people have given us.
01:30Coalition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon stressed that President Emmanuel Macron has a duty to call on the New Popular Front to govern.
01:38He has to admit his defeat without trying to manipulate or change it in any way the Prime Minister must.
01:53Who never received the confidence of the National Assembly comes from leading the campaign lost by his party and received a massive popular challenge vote.
02:01The President must and has a duty to call the New Popular Front to govern.
02:16The Secretary General of the Socialist Party, Olivier Fauré, assured that it is time to continue building the nation.
02:23The danger of the far right of the national grouping was confronted. We must continue to fight on the Great Axis.
02:37It is time to continue building the nation. There is a moment before and after this July.
02:46In the coming days, it will be the role of the Popular Front, and of this our center, and the socialist family, to reform a collective project of our country.
03:06Leader of the National Rally Party, Jordan Bardella, thanked the people for their participation and serenity before the election results.
03:13The French people have spoken, marking this election with a historical participation rate.
03:23French people have honored democracy. I want to thank the voters of the national grouping
03:30and its allies for the patriotic attitude they expressed. I thank them for their mobilization,
03:38constancy but above all serenity in the face of this result.
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