French in North Africa opt for the left and its pro-Palestine stance

In more than 90 percent of French constituencies, the far-right National Rally (RN) came first in last week's European elections.

The political reverberations from this prompted President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call snap parliamentary elections, which could see the party of Marine Le Pen storm to victory once again.

Yet in North Africa, French citizens cast their ballots another way, mainly voting for the left-wing France Unbowed (LFI) on Sunday.

Overall, the more than 130,000 voters of the ninth constituency (which includes French citizens living in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) stayed away from the ballot box altogether: only 13.94 percent of them went to the polls, while the turnout back home in France reached 51.49 percent.

Those that did make their way to consulates in the Maghreb countries voted mostly for the list led by LFI candidate Manon Aubry.

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