Election fever has gripped both sides of the North Atlantic. As Britain enters the final weeks of a long election campaign, French voters face snap parliamentary elections. The race between Biden and Trump for the White House is getting closer.
UK government leader Rishi Sunak is facing a major defeat in the country’s parliamentary elections that will take place on July 4, The Telegraph reports.
According to the results of the opinion poll, the ruling Conservative Party will get only 53 seats instead of the current 365. If that happens, journalists say, Rishi Sunak will be the first prime minister to resign because his party lost the election.
Labour, on the other hand, will improve its result twice: from 202 seats to 516. The Liberal Democrats are also forecast to strengthen their position, with 50 seats compared to 10 five years earlier.
If Labour succeeds, party leader Keir Starmer could become the new prime minister. He was previously shadow minister for Brexit and a human rights lawyer.
Macron could lose
In the upcoming parliamentary elections in France for the party of Marine Le Pen “National Union” (RN) are ready to vote for 35% of the population, while supporters of President Emmanuel Macron do not gain 19% of voter support, the French institute Ifop, citing its research, reported.
It will be difficult for the presidential majority to win the upcoming elections and retain all seats in Parliament. The coalition of the country’s leader is inferior not only to Le Pen’s party, but also to the association of the old guard RN, then the “National Front”, which will support 26% of voters in the elections.
In addition, 7 per cent of those polled will support the Republican Party, which has an agreement with the RN to assist in certain constituencies where the parties will not field candidates against each other.
In the European Parliament elections, the RN won 31.36 per cent of the vote, defeating the president’s supporters. Macron then announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, called a snap election, and there were even rumours of his possible resignation if the right-wing opposition won the election.
