Eric Ciotti’s announcement of an “alliance” between LR and the RN in the legislative elections caused an uproar in his party. A political office is convened at 3 p.m., where several tenors will demand the departure of their leader.
The essential
- The 2024 legislative elections will take place on Sundays June 30 and July 7. The electoral campaign will therefore be brief. The parties have until June 16 to unveil their candidates.
- The President of the Republic will speak this Wednesday at midday at a press conference.
- The Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Ecologists and La France insoumise called on Monday evening “for the creation of a new popular front”, saying they wanted to “support single candidates from the first round”. But Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not one of the leaders leading the negotiations.
- Republican boss Eric Ciotti spoke yesterday on TF1’s 1 p.m. news where he called for an “alliance with the National Rally.” Jordan Bardella mentioned several dozen “invested” or “supported” LR elected officials. LR executives immediately showed their opposition to an alliance with the far right and demanded the resignation, or even the exclusion, of Eric Ciotti. An LR political office is convened at 3 p.m.
- Edouard Philippe called on members of LR refusing an alliance with the RN to join him, to form a new majority with his Horizon party and the Renaissance party.
- Marion Maréchal, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella met yesterday, but the RN leadership ultimately rejected any alliance with Eric Zemmour’s party, to the great dismay of Marine Le Pen’s niece.
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08:48 – Will Eric Ciotti resign from the presidency of LR? Can it be excluded?
From his statements in favor of an alliance between LR and the RN in the legislative elections, Eric Ciotti attracted the wrath of important figures in his party. The boss of LR deputies Olivier Marleix, and even the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher, called on him to resign from the presidency of the Republicans. An option that Eric Ciotti dismissed in front of the press yesterday. Immediately, members of the party against their leader looked for another way to exclude him: “We are going to examine the statutes of this party”, affirmed Florence Portelli yesterday on Franceinfo.
In theory, the LR political bureau can vote to exclude one of the party’s members. Will he vote to exclude his own president? Response this afternoon from 3 p.m.
08:39 – Welcome to our live broadcast of the 2024 legislative elections
Hello everyone ! New day of express campaigning and negotiations this June 12, as the early legislative elections approach. This Wednesday will be marked by at least two highlights: Emmanuel Macron’s press conference, scheduled for 11 a.m., and the Republican political office, where the fate of boss Eric Ciotti should be discussed, the day after his announcement of a alliance with the National Rally.
06/11/24 – 11:51 p.m. – What to remember from the negotiations this Tuesday
Two days after the dissolution of the National Assembly announced by Emmanuel Macron and the convening of early legislative elections, the game of alliances is in full swing.
- Eric Ciotti defended an agreement with the RN on Tuesday at the risk of the implosion of the Republicans. Despite an avalanche of calls for resignation within his party, Eric Ciotti, who seems isolated among LR executives, insisted that he “will not give in” to pressure.
- The National Rally finally gave up on allying with Reconquête, refusing “the very principle of an agreement”, according to Marion Maréchal.
- Announced this Tuesday afternoon, Emmanuel Macron’s press conference will finally take place on Wednesday June 12 at 11 a.m.
06/11/24 – 11:21 p.m. – Several appeals against the legislative elections
Several lawyers filed an appeal this Tuesday before the Constitutional Council to cancel the decree convening voters, after the dissolution of the National Assembly. “The sincerity of the vote is called into question by the impossibility of respecting certain legislative provisions within such a short period of time,” explains one of them to Le Figaro. To justify this decision, they explain that the declarations of candidacies should have taken place, for a first round on June 30, on Friday June 7 and not on the 16th as planned.
11/06/24 – 22:46 – Clémentine Autain calls for a solid union on the left
In view of the legislative elections, Clémentine Autain said she was “very happy” with the formation of a “popular front”. “Because there is a clap of thunder, we are up against the wall, now we can’t stop. It’s too serious, we have to get along,” she confided to Médiapart, this Tuesday. “It is not enough to be against (the extreme right), you also need hope,” added the LFI MP.
06/11/24 – 10:33 p.m. – An expected speech from Emmanuel Macron
After his surprise speech during election night, Emmanuel Macron plans to speak again this Wednesday. The Head of State wishes to address the French once again to present the presidential majority’s plan for the next legislative elections, more particularly its plan for the next three years before the 2027 presidential election. Emmanuel Macron could evoke a desire to create a majority extended to the parties that it considers to be part of the republican arc (the PS, EELV, the PCF and LR) to govern and adopt future bills.
11/06/24 – 22:07 – The strategy of the majority
Emmanuel Macron is among the first to get involved in the campaign for the legislative elections that he called by dissolving the National Assembly. The Head of State will thus closely follow the inaugurations of the candidates of the presidential majority party, Renaissance. The presidential majority also reached out to right-wing forces who do not agree with the LR-RN alliance for the legislative elections.
06/11/24 – 9:48 p.m. – Ministers from the right want a “republican front”
Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire, Rachida Dati, Sébastien Lecornu, Catherine Vautrin and Christophe Béchu castigated the agreement between LR and the RN, a “distortion of the values” of the Republicans, and the “drift” of some of the party’s leaders, “because drift is always the prelude to shipwreck.” “More than ever, we believe that between the Popular Front of France Insoumise and the National Front of the extreme right, there is a path for a republican front,” they write in a column published in Le Figaro.
11/06/24 – 9:26 p.m. – The presidential majority opens the door to LR elected officials who refuse the alliance with the RN
The secretary general of Renaissance Stéphane Séjourné assured that the party is considering “not presenting a candidate in the constituencies of deputies of other parties, who like us refuse the agreements of their political parties with the extremes”. “We have been witnessing for 2 days an escalation of partisan alliances that are worrying and dangerous for our country,” he said.
06/11/24 – 9:07 p.m. – LFI files an appeal before the Constitutional Council
La France insoumise has filed “an appeal to the Constitutional Council against the freezing of the electoral lists”. “11 million people are not or incorrectly registered on the electoral lists”, judges the movement, which describes the freeze as “dangerous”. The electoral lists for the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 have been closed.
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Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly only a few minutes after the announcement of the first estimates of the results of the European elections on Sunday June 9. A “serious, heavy” decision taken in view of the overwhelming victory of the National Rally in the European vote. “I trust the French people to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations. I have heard your message, your concerns, and I will not leave them unanswered,” declared the president of the Republic. By this decision, and the appeal to article 12 of the Constitution of the 5th Republic, Emmanuel Macron de facto recorded the organization of early legislative elections aimed at composing a new National Assembly.
The French will therefore be called to vote in new elections which will arrive quickly, very quickly since the Constitution provides for new elections within 20 to 40 days following the dissolution. Emmanuel Macron has already set the dates for the election: the first round of 2024 legislative elections will be held on Sunday June 30, followed by the second round a week later on Sunday July 7, 2024. That is to say less than three weeks after the announcement by the head of the state. Why so early ? Well because within the deadline provided for by the Constitution, the agenda for the coming months is busy, particularly with the start of the Olympic Games and the summer period and school holidays following, which limited the options for organizing the ballots.
The day after the announcement on the dissolution of the National Assembly and the organization of legislative elections, the different parties entered into the campaign, which will be express with barely three weeks between the announcement and the polls. The first key step is that of submitting applications, the deadline for which is Friday June 14, to allow the official campaign to begin on Monday June 17 and respect the two weeks of campaigning before an election.
The different parties organize themselves, but they also consult for some. The presidential majority was the first to extend a hand to certain parties, mainly the Republicans, the socialists and the ecologists, by promising not to present a candidate in front of the outgoing deputies “from the Republican arc” and by proposing to invest elected from these same political families on the condition that they subscribe to the project of the majority. But neither the right nor the left agreed to ally themselves with the presidential camp.
On the left, all the forces are calling for a union but the conditions to put this in place remain to be defined. The rebels and some other left-wing personalities have called for a departure from the Nupes program established in 2022. The leaders of the four left-wing parties are meeting this Monday, June 10: Olivier Faure (PS), Manuel Bompard (LFI), Marine Tondelier ( EELV) and Fabien Roussel (PCF).
On the far right it is Eric Zemmour, head of the Reconquest party who called for “the broadest union of the rights”, but both the National Rally and the Republicans refused any alliance. The fact remains that Marion Maréchal, also a supporter of a union on the right, engages in dialogue with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen. Note that all the forces which will engage in the 2024 legislative elections will have to present 577 candidates, one for each French constituency.