France's Next 5 Years: Analysis of the 2022 French Presidential and Parliamentary Election results

           France's Next Five Years: Analysis of the 2022 French Presidential and Parliamentary Election Results     

Nevzet Celik (Ph.D.)        

Abstract

This paper analysis in which Macron received 38% of the vote from counting all voters and was elected president of France for the second time. However, in the parliamentary elections held about two months after the presidential election, Macron failed to win the seats required for an absolute majority. This leaves Macron facing a potentially turbulent five-year period of dilemma. The polls also reveal that France is going through a tough political and economic period. The record low turnout shows that people have given up hope in politicians in a period of declining purchasing power and structural problems in the health service. The paper shows the increasing far-right votes on the one hand and the leftist movement led by Mélenchon on the other will increase extreme division in France politics. There is also a mass of people who did not participate in the elections, showing their despair and distrust of politics at record levels. For France, a country of Revolutions, this record low turnout demonstrated the problematic functionality of democracy in the country. 

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France's Next 5 Years: Analysis of the 2022 French Presidential and Parliamentary Election results