LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. The list of candidates for the legislative elections of June 12 and 17, 2022 is becoming clearer, with on the one hand a union of the sealed left and on the other a rally around the presidential majority recorded at the same time this week. The results of the polls give the two blocks neck and neck for the moment…
The essential
- The dates of the legislative elections have been set for June 12 and 19, 2022. This new ballot aims to designate the 577 deputies who will make up the new National Assembly for the next five-year term. Voters will be able to choose whether or not to entrust a majority to Emmanuel Macron able to adopt his reforms until 2027.
- The 2022 legislative campaign had a decisive week with an agreement reached between LFI and the PS for a common bloc with EELV and the PCF, which had already rallied to Mélenchon. The “New popular ecological and social union” (NUPES) must officially invest its candidates for the legislative elections this Saturday, May 7: 50 for the Communists, 70 for the Socialists, 100 for the environmentalists and around 350 for the Insoumis. Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated on France 2 on Friday that he himself “probably” will not be a candidate.
- The legislative elections are also being prepared in the presidential camp, where 187 candidates have already been unveiled, including some members of the government: Gérald Darmanin in the North, Elisabeth Borne in Calvados, Clément Beaune in Paris, but also Jean-Michel Blanquer and Gabriel Attal. Richard Ferrand (Renaissance, ex-LREM), Edouard Philippe (Horizons) and François Bayrou (MoDem) held a press conference at the end of the week to announce their confederation, “Together!”, in the legislative elections.
- The result of the latest poll on the 2022 legislative elections, conducted by Cluster 17 and published on Thursday, credits the left-wing alliance (Nupes) with 34% of voting intentions in the first round, ahead of the presidential majority (24.5%). and the RN (19.5%).
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
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2:00 p.m. – Carole Delga wants to organize “the states general of the republican left”
In an interview with Le Parisien, Carole Delga showed her disagreement with the agreement between the Socialist Party, of which she is a member, and La France insoumise with a view to the legislative elections: “Within a fortnight, I will bring together activists who refuse the liquidation of the Socialist Party and who therefore disagree with the project presented by the party leadership. The president of the Occitanie region then indicated the roadmap: “We will mobilize alongside the militants so that there are a maximum of left-wing deputies who are elected. And after the summer, we will organize States General of the republican, European and ecological left, open to activists, sympathizers, civil society, all those who, on the left, want a social project that is neither that of Emmanuel Macron nor that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “
1:35 p.m. – Olivier Véran tackles the agreement between the PS and LFI
In a statement sent on Twitter, Olivier Véran strongly criticized the agreement between the Socialist Party and La France insoumise for the legislative elections. According to the Minister of Solidarity and Health, “the merger agreement – or submission, everyone is free to judge, on the far left is the final step in the enterprise aimed at liquidating the left of government in our country.” Former socialist sympathizer, Olivier Véran appealed to his former companions: “I appeal to your convictions, because I know them, for many I share them, and I know that they are not soluble in this improbable pact, in this baroque and unbalanced alliance.”
To my former comrades who wonder: it is not you who are leaving the Socialist Party, it is he who has just left you. pic.twitter.com/xTt5FVlCcK
— Olivier Veran (@olivierveran) May 6, 2022
13:05 – Aurélien Pradié wants to end Sarkozyism
In an interview with Point, Aurélien Pradié appealed to these comrades of the Republicans: “What I learned the most from Nicolas Sarkozy is the meaning of the break. It is his desire to break with the chiraquismo that allowed him to succeed. I’m sure he won’t blame me for saying that today we have to break with Sarkozyism.”
12:36 – François Bayrou thinks that the choice of a new Prime Minister could have taken place after the legislative elections
At the microphone of LCI, François Bayrou thinks “we could have waited” before appointing a new Prime Minister. Indeed, the name of the next head of government could be announced soon, but according to the president of the Modem, it would have been possible to wait for the result of the legislative elections on 12th and 19th June next before announcing it. However, he acknowledged that current circumstances may require Emmanuel Macron to speed up the timetable.
12:09 – François Hollande will react to the LFI-PS agreement this Monday on France 5
François Hollande should react soon to the agreement between the Socialist Party and La France insoumise with a view to the legislative elections on 12th and 19th June next. While he “rejected” the agreement between La France insoumise and the Socialist Party in view of the legislative elections, the former President of the Republic, from 2012 to 2017, will intervene in the program C à vous on France 5 on Monday May 9 , according to franceinfo.
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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. For French people living abroad as well as for those from French Polynesia, the first round is organized one week before the vote organized in mainland France. In certain departments and overseas collectivities, the ballot is held on the Saturday preceding the election in mainland France. These two elections take place only two months after the presidential election, the campaign of the candidates for deputy is therefore part of the dynamics of the designation of the tenant of the Elysée.
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?
During legislative elections, there are always several thousand candidates who sign up to run for a seat in the National Assembly. In 2017, they were nearly 8,000. 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.
First polls on the legislative elections, giving the first trends, have just been published. Be careful, the projections are a very difficult exercise for the pollsters to carry out, but they give some information on the balance of power at stake: according to a Cluster 17 poll, published on Friday 29 April, 34% of the voters questioned intend to vote for a candidate supported by the main left forces in the first round, 24% for a candidate supported by the RN and Reconquête, 24% for a candidate supported by the presidential party, and 9.5% for a candidate supported by the Republicans . An Ifop poll dating from the same day indicates that 35% of those questioned want the victory of a union of the left in the legislative elections, 29% the victory of an RN-Reconquest alliance, 26% the victory of the presidential camp, and 10% that Republicans and their allies. In contrast, an older Harris Interactive poll (April 25) based on voting intentions predicts an absolute majority for President Macron after both rounds.
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.