Let's have fun, place some bets, and learn about the French parliamentary system.
Here is how it works. There are 577 seats in French parliament aka "National Assembly" -- including overseas territories.
There are two rounds of voting. The first on June 30th, and the second on Sunday July 7th. After all second round votes are counted, we will know the party of each of the 577 assembly members.
At that point the parties will negotiate (usually, quite quickly) to determine what will be the winning / ruling coalition that has a parliamentary majority.
Most focus is on two parties / coalitions
1. Macron's centrist "Ensemble coalition" that is expected to lose, but may pull out a win if the National Rally (LePen's coalition) is not able to win an absolute majority.
2. LePen's National Rally -- right wing and the favorite
3. Left wing coalition "New Popular Front" -- seen as more likely to form a ruling coalition than Macron's centrist group or LePen's right wing group
These names may change... such is French politics. But it will be very clear what happened. Probably by evening of July 7th, or a day or so after.
As of June 30th -- before first round results have been announced, here is some information we have.
National Rally is over 95% chance to win the election (but perhaps with a partner)
https://www.bettingonpolitics.co.uk/francepoliticsbettingmarkets.html
According to this article, polling suggests that National Rally would get about 37% of the vote and projected to win close to ~50% of the seats. Close to enough for absolute majority of 577 but could be close.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/national-rally-seen-winning-37-popular-vote-first-round-french-snap-election-2024-06-28/
Let's face it -- unless you a French or expert in parliamentary systems... you probably don't understand all of this. But place a wager anyway. Let's learn how this system works.
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@Moscow25 all sources describe the government as "centrist coalition" and minority government
with both the left wing and "far right" RN out of power -- though the coalition will need the support of one of them to pass laws, essentially
A government has been announced with a mixture of Ensemble and LR, no sign of RN or NFP
Source 1: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/france-gets-new-government-after-weeks-uncertainty-2024-09-21/
Source 2: https://apnews.com/article/france-new-government-7711ba405d2858433dd9f27de9b1f07b
There is still on coalition formed.
I can not find any information to even the hint of a solution to the ruling coalition. And a new election can not take place for another year...
So I will extend this through September. If nothing is decided, we can resolve as N/A -- not fair to thing that can not possibly happen but they need to make a ruling coalition to resolve some of these bets.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/07/french-elections-second-round-turnout-at-5-pm-reaches-59-71_6676962_7.html
63% of French voters turned out to vote on Sunday, slightly less than in the first round, a week ago, when voters had already turned out in large numbers.
Wikipedia says 66.63%
Are there other figures around?
@Moscow25 Sanity checking: the question is set to end Jul 15th.
Do the positive "form coalition" / "part of majority" options resolve no at that point or get deferred as long as it takes for some new PM to be chosen?
(I believe they should stay pending, but I do have a vested interest)
Leaving turnout and coalition questions unresolved for now.
Looks like you all are pricing in both hung parliament (no unity government made within a week) and eventual government with Macron's coalition and FNP.
We'll see how that goes. If alliances are reformed seriously breaking those during the vote, we will play resolution by ear.
I think your definitions are unusual.
There is no majority in the Assembly - that is a hung parliament. That's what a hung parliament is. If a coalition forms that does not make the parliament un-hung. The 2010 UK Parliament was hung throughout its term.
I also find it a bit strange to ask about July 14th and forming a majority and stuff, when the Assembly doesn't convene until the 18th. Given their lack of experience in these situations (this is the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic that no party is even vaguely close to a majority), and given that Macron has rejected Attal's resignation, it is quite possible the coalition negotiations will only seriously happen once the Assembly convenes.
Results via Le Monde
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/07/07/2024-french-election-results-chart-and-map-of-second-round-winners_6676976_8.html
RN and allies -- 143
Macron's coalition -- 168
FNP alliance -- 182
LR (conservative, not RN) -- 46
Waiting for final results but pretty good summary even this morning
https://deepnewz.com/economics/french-left-wing-coalition-surpasses-macron-le-pen-july-7-elections
