LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Political parties continue to unveil their investitures in the legislative elections. But many candidates decide to go it alone. The latest news live.
The essential
- The French are called to the polls on June 12 and 19 to elect their deputies during the legislative elections.
- A meeting was held Friday evening between members of the dissident socialist party to the Nupes agreement, in order to coordinate the candidacies out of agreement in the legislative elections. The president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, was the main instigator.
- Sunday on France 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced his intention to revalue the minimum wage not to 1400 but to 1500 euros net per month, if the Nupes won the legislative elections.
- The boss of the Republicans, Christian Jacob, believes in a “real rebound” of his party in the legislative elections: in an interview with Ouest France, he recalls the solid anchoring of the Republicans in the territories. LR has completed its nominations and will present 543 common candidates with the UDI and the Centrists.
- A Cluster17 poll, published on Friday May 13, places Nupes at the top of voting intentions in the 1st round: 31% of those polled want to support one of its candidates. However, according to the Harris Interactive poll of May 11, at the end of the two rounds, the presidential majority would win between 300 and 350 seats, that is to say an absolute majority.
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
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10:22 – Christian Jacob believes in a “rebound” from the right in the legislative elections
In an interview for West France, the boss of LR is optimistic in view of the legislative elections, decisive for his party after such a failure in the presidential election. He reaffirms the line of the Republicans: “That of an independent right, which will never be in the blocking of institutions, capable of voting texts which go in the right direction, but of opposing them harshly if it is not the case.” For Christian Jacob, the strength of his party is its territorial anchoring: “We need, in the National Assembly, to have this representation that the right has on the territories. Today we hold around 60% executives: town halls, metropolises, departments, regions. These territories must be represented in the Assembly by people of conviction.”
Christian Jacob also deplores “the ban on the accumulation of mandates, wanted by François Hollande, Édouard Philippe and Emmanuel Macron”, which “prevents a certain number of personalities from presenting themselves, when they have real know-how, a real skill. He declares that the LR nominations are complete: 543 “unique LR, UDI and centrist candidacies.”
10:01 – Jean-Luc Mélenchon now wants to increase the Smic to 1500 euros net per month
Sunday May 15 on France 3, Jean-Luc Mélenchon clarified the program of his training for the 2022 legislative elections. He announced two modifications in the measures aimed at increasing the purchasing power of the French: from now on, he wishes to raise monthly minimum wage at 1500 euros net, instead of 1400 initially. An upward revision that he explains by high inflation. the minimum wage is currently just over 1300 euros net for a full-time job. Jean-Luc Mélenchon also promised the increase in the index point for civil servants.
09:53 – For François Bayrou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has “a dangerous program”
For the High Planning Commissioner, “Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program would lead France into an abyss”. Asked on Franceinfo about the intentions of the Nupes in the legislative elections, he returns to the principle of “European disobedience” dear to France Insoumise: “The principle of Europe, like the principle of any association, is that when we take a decision together, we respect it”, defends François Bayrou. He insists: “This program is a dangerous program, and I am absolutely convinced that it must be one of the responsibilities of the legislative election to reveal it.”
09:46 – Radical left boss calls for need for “centre-left space”
Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Radical Left Party, castigates the Nupes agreement in the legislative elections, this morning on Public Senate: “What has been decided is that each and everyone on the left will abjure thirty years of political life and please submit,” he said. The PRG will present a few candidates in the legislative elections, and will support certain leftist dissident candidates for the Nupes, such as the socialist Lamia El Aaraje in Paris. Guillaume Lacroix deplores a union of the left around its “extreme” and claims the need for a “center left space” capable of making “real reforms”. He also calls on the left to leave the “backward-looking logic of egalitarianism everywhere”.
09:36 – Carole Delga brought together the dissident socialist troops for the legislative elections
Friday evening, a videoconference meeting brought together candidates from the socialist party who had decided to stand for the legislative elections without the investiture of the Nupes. These candidates are for the most part opposed to an alliance of the PS with insubordinate France. At their head, Carole Delga tried to coordinate these dissident forces. The president of the Occitanie region is not herself a legislative candidate, but she declared herself opposed to an agreement with LFI from the start.
“Let things be clear, this is not preparatory work for the socialist congress, but a gathering in anticipation of the enlargement to all the forces of the republican, European and ecological left, with all its voluntary members and all its components,” said Carole Delga, according to the Figaro. According to her, about 70 socialist candidates have decided to run outside Nupes, which is as many as in Nupes. She insists on the fact that it is not a question of creating a new movement: the dissidents want to present themselves under the banner “Socialist Party” and hope not to be excluded from the party.
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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?
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. By contrast, an older Harris Interactive poll (April 25) based on voting intentions predicts an outright 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.