Early legislative elections will be held three weeks after Emmanuel Macron’s announcement, on June 9, to dissolve the National Assembly. Here is all you need to know.
Two years after the 2022 legislative elections, organized as tradition dictates in the wake of the presidential elections – new legislative elections are being organized in France. They follow Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the National Assembly following the European elections on June 9, 2024. The President of the Republic surprised many people, including in his own political camp, by taking a such a decision only a few minutes after the tidal wave of the National Rally which obtained more than 31% of the votes during these European elections when the score of the party of the presidential majority, although it came in second position, did not even reach the 15%.
When will the first round take place?
Who says dissolution of the National Assembly says new legislative elections. The French are therefore invited to go to the polls at the start of summer in order to elect the deputies who will sit in the hemicycle to participate in the development and adoption of laws. The first round of these early legislative elections will be held on Sunday June 30, three weeks after the European elections, the minimum deadline since the Constitution requires that they be organized between 20 and 40 days after the dissolution of the National Assembly.
Polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. and will close between 6 and 8 p.m. depending on the municipality. At the end of the counts, the names of the first deputies will be known, for those who have obtained more than 50% of the votes cast in their constituency and at least 25% of the number of registered voters.
When will the second round take place?
The legislative elections take place over two rounds. If a few deputies will undoubtedly be known at the end of the first round on the evening of June 30, it is a week later, on Sunday July 7, that the 577 constituencies will have delivered their verdict. The French will once again be called upon to travel to elect their deputy. This time they will be able to vote for the candidates who qualified for the second round, that is to say those who obtained at least 12.5% of votes from voters registered in their constituency in the first round.
The candidate who comes first will be elected – in the event of a tie, the oldest wins – and will become one of the 577 deputies who represent the French. Like seven days earlier, the polling stations will be open from 8 a.m. and will close between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. depending on the city. Gabriel Attal’s government will remain in place until the day after the legislative elections, July 8. Once the new National Assembly is formed, it will meet for the first time on the second Thursday after the election, i.e. July 18