1st round of France's legislative elections underway
STORY: 1st round of France's legislative elections underway
DATELINE: June 12, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:20
LOCATION: Paris
CATEGORY: POLITICS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of posters
2. various of polling stations
3. various of voters voting
STORYLINE:
France has started its legislative elections on Sunday in which voters are expected to elect the National Assembly's 577 members after two rounds of voting.
The first election round is underway on Sunday and the second round is slated to be held on June 19.
Each deputy is elected in a constituency, of which Metropolitan France (the area of the country that is geographically in Europe) has 539 and the overseas territories 27. A further 11 deputies will represent the French nationals living abroad.
The deputies are directly elected for a term of five years. For this year's election, the French Interior Ministry has published a list of 6,293 candidates, which the local news channel BFMTV said was 20 percent less than in 2017.
According to the Interior Ministry, 20 p
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