LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Marine Le Pen, candidate for re-election to the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais, is struggling to convince of her pugnacity. At the RN, we criticize his lack of strategy. The latest news live.
The essential
- In two weeks, the French will be called to the polls to elect their 577 deputies: the legislative elections will be held on June 12 and 19, 2022.
- The official campaign for the legislative elections opens today.
- French nationals living abroad registered on the consular lists began to vote online on Friday May 27 and have until Wednesday June 1.
- Critics are rising internally from the National Rally to denounce Marine Le Pen’s lack of strategy for these legislative elections. The candidate should not resume the presidency of her party at the end of the interim of Jordan Bardella.
- A Cluster 17 poll, published on Friday May 27, credits Nupes with 30% of voting intentions in the first round of legislative elections. Behind, Together! is credited with 26%, the RN with 19%, LR with 10.5% and Reconquest! by 6%. However, according to the Opinion Way poll published on 25th May, in the second round the presidential camp would win an absolute majority in the Assembly, with 295 to 335 seats.
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
Compilation of polls on the first round of the 2022 legislative elections
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11:03 – “I don’t want to kill anyone, I want to save France!” Bardella responds to Zemmour
This morning on BFM, Eric Zemmour accused the RN of campaigning against him for the legislative elections. An intention defended by the interim president of the RN, Jordan Bardella: “We have candidates who have been fighting on the ground for months, years,” he recalls. “When someone arrives from Paris, we can’t tell him, on the grounds that it’s Eric Zemmour, ‘come on sir!’ Eric Zemmour is not God.” Bardella adds: “We have to stop whining, crying. I don’t want to kill anyone, I want to save France.”
10:40 a.m. – A technical problem prevents French people living abroad from voting online for the legislative elections
French people residing abroad can normally vote online in the legislative elections since Friday May 27. But several hundred of them reported a problem: an error message displayed when confirming their vote, preventing them from completing the process. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been notified and informs that the problem only concerns users of certain mailboxes, such as Yahoo. “Technical support teams are currently working to address this issue,” the ministry said. “Voters have been notified of this and will be notified again when it is resolved.” Online voting is due to close on Wednesday June 1st.
10:23 – Candidates for the 2022 legislative elections react to the incidents at the Stade de France
Saturday May 28, the final of the Champions League, which opposed Liverpool to Real Madrid, was the scene of violence between supporters and police at the entrance to the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis. Since then, everyone has been trying to appoint a person in charge. “Thousands of British ‘supporters’, without tickets or with counterfeit tickets, forced their way in and sometimes assaulted the stewards,” Minister Gérald Darmanin, legislative candidate in the North, wrote on Twitter on Saturday evening, blaming Liverpool fans. But for Eric Zemmour, the culprits are the foreign populations of the surrounding districts: “Now, we are on trial of the police, after that of the English supporters, not to say what happened”, declares the candidate from Var on BFM TV. “Saint-Denis is not Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis has not been France for a long time,” adds Zemmour.
10:12 – If he wins the legislative elections in the Var, Eric Zemmour will not sit with Marine Le Pen in the Assembly
Eric Zemmour is perhaps the only Reconquest candidate! to have a chance of winning a seat in the Assembly in the 2022 legislative elections. But if that was the case, there was no question of joining the ranks of the RN at the Bourbon spokesman, he insists on BFMTV. “I’ve never been to the RN, I’m not an RN dissident like [Marine Le Pen] think so sometimes, so no, not at all, I will not sit with them. I am autonomous”, he says. Eric Zemmour is a candidate in these legislative elections in the 4th district of Var, which includes the city of Saint-Tropez.
09:59 – In these legislative elections, “Marine Le Pen has only one opponent, it’s Reconquest”, laments Eric Zemmour
The President of Reconquest! regrets that the RN is campaigning against its candidates: “There are hundreds of constituencies where it is the Nupes candidate who can win. There are hundreds of constituencies where it is the En Marche candidate who can win But no! Jordan Bardella comes to constituencies where I have a serious chance of winning”, deplores Zemmour on Europe 1. Once again, the candidate for the legislative elections in the Var salutes “Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s strategy, who, taking advantage of his position of strength, brought together the entire left, and who is going to allow the left, gathered around him, on his terms, to achieve a very good result, to have 100, 150 deputies. There is Marine Le Pen’s strategy. Marine Le Pen has only one opponent, obviously, it’s Reconquest!”
09:44 – Marine le Pen is the subject of internal criticism
Marine Le Pen is a candidate in the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais. Historical figure of the RN, she participates in the campaign in other territories, like last week in the Bouches-du-Rhône. However, the ex-boss of the RN is the subject of internal criticism. “It’s incomprehensible, as for the between-two rounds of the presidential election, there is no national strategy for this campaign”, deplores an RN executive with BFM TV. For her part, Marine Le Pen suggests that she will not resume her place as party president, which she had entrusted to Jordan Bardella for an interim period to last until September 2022. “I have been in office for ten years. the head of this movement”, she justifies herself World. After his third defeat in the presidential election, weariness seems to be setting in.
09:34 – The official campaign for the legislative elections opens this Monday
Welcome to the live of the 2022 legislative elections. Find all day the latest news, reactions and the results of new polls. As part of the official campaign, the television channels will start today to broadcast campaign clips from political parties, and the campaign teams will stick up their posters in all the municipalities of France.
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What are the dates of the 2022 legislative elections?
The first round of the legislative elections is organized in all the constituencies of metropolitan France on Sunday June 12, 2022; the second round takes place on Sunday June 19, 2022. Abroad and in French Polynesia, the first ballot is held ahead of the vote organized in mainland France. In certain departments and overseas collectivities, voters vote in the legislative elections on the Saturday preceding the election in mainland France. These two elections take place only two months after the presidential election, due to the fact that the campaign is in addition to being short and imbued with the dynamics of the presidential election. The nominations of the candidates generally take place at the beginning of May after the sequences of negotiations but the official candidatures must be deposited in the prefecture between May 16 and May 20, at 6 p.m. at the latest. As for the official campaign, it lasts two weeks and starts on Monday, May 30 this year. From this date, municipalities must provide candidates with poster spaces and the media give voice to political parties involved in the legislative race.
How do legislative elections work?
The men and women appointed deputies during the legislative elections are the representatives of national sovereignty for 5 years, except in the event of dissolution interrupting the legislature. The election is carried out by direct universal suffrage, by a so-called uninominal majority ballot in two rounds in each constituency. In each constituency, a candidate is elected and therefore obtains a deputy seat in the first round, if he obtains an absolute majority of the votes cast and a number of votes equal to a quarter of the number of registered voters.
To qualify for the second round, a candidate must have received in the first round a number of votes at least equal to 12.5% of the number of registered voters in the constituency. But if only one candidate fulfills this condition, then the candidate who came in second place can remain in the second round. If no candidate has obtained the 12.5% of registered votes, the two candidates who come first are qualified for the second round. In the second round, the candidate who comes first, with an absolute or relative majority, is elected. In the event of a perfect equality of votes, the oldest candidate is elected.
Who are the candidates for the legislative elections?
6,293 applications were submitted to the prefecture before the deadline, May 20. According to the electoral code, to stand as legislative candidates, a certain number of conditions must be met: be of legal age on the day of the election; enjoy their civic rights; not be in a case of incapacity or ineligibility provided for by law. A candidate is not obliged, on the other hand, to appear on the electoral list of one of the communes of the legislative constituency he is targeting. It is forbidden to run in several constituencies. It is impossible for a mayor or a person exercising local executive functions to stand as a candidate in a legislative election, since the organic law of February 14, 2014 on the non-accumulation of mandates.
What are the results of the polls on the 2022 legislative elections?
It must be understood that legislative elections are of a very singular nature: in reality there are 577 different ballots, one per constituency, with candidates presenting themselves only in a single territory. Polling institutes do not lend themselves to the exercise of carrying out an opinion poll in each constituency. On the other hand, the pollsters always carry out for the legislative studies of voting intentions by political formation at the national level, for the first and the second round. More detailed analyzes follow with projections in number of seats, with wide ranges.
A Cluster17 poll, published this Friday, May 27, places Nupes at the top of the voting intentions in the first round of the legislative elections, with 30%. Behind, the presidential majority is credited with 26%. The National Rally gets 19%, the Republicans and their allies 10.5%, Eric Zemmour’s Reconquest party 6%. However, the Opinion Way poll of May 25 still provides for an absolute majority in the Assembly for the Macron camp, at the end of the two rounds: Together! won between 295 and 335 seats. Nupes won between 155 and 185, LR and UDI between 50 and 70 and the National Rally between 14 and 34.
What is the result of the last legislative elections?
The results of the previous legislative elections had allowed Emmanuel Macron to govern with an absolute majority, since 350 seats out of 577 had been allocated, in 2017, to the parties La République en Marche and the MoDem. The Les Républicains party then became the leading opposition party, with 112 seats. The Socialist Party recorded a very severe defeat, with the election of only 30 parliamentarians at the Palais Bourbon. La France Insoumise had succeeded in forming a parliamentary group, with 17 elected members, the National Rally had brought 8 elected members into the National Assembly. In five years, these figures have evolved over resignations, changes of groups and partial legislative. Here is in the graph above the composition of the National Assembly updated before the result of the 2022 legislative elections.