LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. In an interview given to several titles in the regional daily press, Emmanuel Macron rejected the hypothesis of seeing Jean-Luc Mélenchon be appointed Prime Minister after the legislative elections.
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- In 8 days, the French will vote in the first round of the legislative elections. They will elect in each of the 577 French constituencies their deputy to sit in the Assembly.
- In an interview, Emmanuel Macron mocked Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his ambition to become Prime Minister: “I have never done political fiction. (…) It is rare to win an election in which you do not present yourself. The president chooses the person he appoints prime minister by looking at parliament. No political party can impose a name on the president.”
- Faced with journalists from the regional daily press, the Head of State pinned down the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, led by the leader of LFI: “I read the Nupes program. They quote the word twenty times in it. “taxation” and thirty times the word “ban”, which gives a fairly clear idea of the spirit of the program… It’s a freedom project, no doubt? Won’t that drive people crazy?”
- In a column published in Le FigaroValérie Pécresse calls on right-wing voters who voted for Emmanuel Macron to regain their “freedom” and vote in the legislative elections for Les Républicains, the only “credible” opposition in her eyes.
- The Cluster17 institute poll, published on Friday June 3, places Nupes at the top of voting intentions in the first round of legislative elections, with 31%, ahead of the presidential majority (27%) and the RN (19%). In the 2nd round, according to the Elabe poll of June 1, the absolute majority is not assured for Ensemble!, but it seems illusory for Nupes: the pollsters let Jean-Luc Mélenchon hope for around 180 deputies at most, far from the 289 elected officials needed to impose cohabitation.
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15:44 – Valérie Pécresse believes that Les Républicains are the only “credible” opposition
In a column published in Le Figaro, Valérie Pécresse calls on right-wing voters who voted for Emmanuel Macron to regain their “freedom” and vote in the legislative elections for Les Républicains, the only “credible” opposition in her eyes. “In the National Assembly, the real opposition will be the one that does not give in to the intoxication of demagoguery”, she affirms again, stressing that this opposition could only be “that of the right and the center united “.
15:01 – Alexis Corbière does not want to hear about a pension reform
Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to launch a National Council for Refoundation provokes reactions in the opposition. Invited on franceinfo, the deputy LFI, Alexis Corbière, denounced “a National Council of manipulation”. “Who can believe in his scheme which consists in carrying out the pension reform at 64 or 65 when all the unions are against it?”, He questioned, affirming that “everyone is against” this reform.
14:05 – French Polynesia begins voting this Saturday
French Polynesia votes this Saturday for the first round of legislative elections, before a second round on June 18. Nearly 206,500 voters in French Polynesia will start voting on Saturday at 8 a.m. local time (8 p.m. in mainland France).
13:11 – Voting for the legislative elections begins today in some French territories
Polynesia and the French residing abroad, some of whom have already been able to vote online, are expected to go to the polls this weekend for the first round of legislative elections. The results of the 11 constituencies of French people living abroad should be known overnight from Sunday to Monday. One of the main issues is in the 5th constituency (Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco) where former Prime Minister Manuel Valls is running in the colors of the presidential majority.
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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 engaged 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.
The result of these 2022 legislative elections will determine the political balance of power that will structure Emmanuel Macron’s second term: the re-elected president hopes to once again have an absolute majority in the Assembly, otherwise the program it intends to implement will have to be amended. These legislative elections are in fact a new match between the three formations which now represent the political triptych of the country: the radical left carried by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the parties of the presidential majority united under the label Together! and the sovereignist and nationalist right of Marine Le Pen.
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.