NNA - The Ipsos polling institute expected that the participation rate in the first round of the legislative elections in France on Sunday would reach 67.5 percent, according to Agence France-Presse.

At 17:00 (15:00 GMT), this percentage reached 59.39 percent, an increase of twenty points over its counterpart at the same hour in the first round of the 2022 elections, according to what the French Ministry of the Interior reported earlier.

It is also the highest percentage since the first round of the 1978 legislative elections, with the exception of the 1986 vote, which took place according to the proportional system and in one round.

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