LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. The agreement between the socialists and the rebellious is ratified. Late at night the National Council of the PS validated the union of the left, now each party must invest its legislative candidates. Follow the campaign live.
The essential
- The legislative elections will be played on June 12 and 19, 2022, the date on which the French will have to elect their deputies and compose the new National Assembly.
- The union of the left is finally recorded. Yesterday evening the National Council of the PS validated the rapprochement of the Socialists with La France Insoumise nearly four hours of negotiations, a historic meeting for the left.
- The New Popular Ecological and Social Union (NUPES) has yet to invest its various candidates, each party having received a certain number of constituencies: 100 for the ecologists, 50 for the communists and 70 for the socialists, the rest for the rebellious.
- Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS has already assured that all dissident socialist candidates in the legislative elections will be excluded from the party. Yet even before the validation of the agreement, local PS officials promised to present socialist candidates against the union of the left and some rebels maintained their position last night.
- The investitures of the presidential camp for the legislative elections are becoming clearer: Gérald Darmanin has announced that he will be a candidate in the North, Elisabeth Borne in Calvados. Bruno Le Maire, on the other hand, will not show up, neither will Eric Dupond-Moretti. Other names have been revealed such as that of Manuel Valls but also Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer and spokesperson Gabriel Attal.
- Richard Ferrand (LREM), Edouard Philippe (Horizons) and François Bayrou (MoDem) held a press conference yesterday to announce their confederation, “Together”, in the legislative elections. On this occasion, Stanislas Guerini, the general delegate of the presidential party, announced that LREM would be renamed “Renaissance”.
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
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08:23 – Clément Beaune will be a legislative candidate in the 7th district of Paris
The current Secretary of State for European Affairs is one of the names now known to embody the presidential majority in the 2022 legislative elections. Last night, Clément Beaune rejoiced in a tweet at this investiture: “I am proud to present myself in the legislative elections in the 7th district of Paris, to defend Europe, ecology and our public services, to act #Together alongside the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron.” This constituency straddles the 4th, 11th and 12th arrondissements.
08:07 – Manon Aubry welcomes a left-wing union that is going “so fast and so strong”
Manon Aubry, MEP LFI said she was “satisfied” with the agreement of the left and the formation of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (NUPES) on France 2 this morning. She appears pleasantly surprised by the speed with which the coalition was formed, she who did not think it would go “so fast and so strong”. Welcoming a “new Socialist Party” she judges about the Socialists unfavorable to the agreement like François Hollande or Bernard Cazeneuve that “the elephants are enormously mistaken”. Manon Aubry joins Olivier Faure on possible dissident candidates and indicates that each party has the responsibility of excluding them from political formations.
08:00 – The NUPES “allows us to envisage victory” according to Julien Bayou
Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts and one of the makers of the agreement between the FLI and the ecologists, the first alliance on the left, welcomes the formation of the new union of the left after the official rallying of the PS to the New popular ecological and social union and especially 25 years after the last union. On Twitter, he believes that “this common banner is the one that allows us to envisage victory in June”.
07:53 – The dissident socialist candidates “will be excluded” from the party promises Olivier Faure
While Olivier Faure congratulated the conclusion of an agreement for the union of the left, like the figures of LFI like the deputy Adrien Quatennens, tenors of the PS denounced the “disappearance” of the left party in come to certain territories because of this union with La France insoumise. Several local elected officials have announced that they will present socialist candidates against the union of the left and have maintained their position despite Oliver Faure’s promise made last night: “The statutes of the Socialist Party are very clear: if there to dissenting candidates, they will be expelled from the Socialist Party”.
07:48 – The PS ratifies the agreement with LFI and joins the union of the left
The National Council of the PS validated the agreement concluded with La France insoumise late last night. It took until midnight and more than four hours of negotiations to know the opinion of the Socialists. The union of the left was voted by 65% with 167 votes for, 101 against and 23 abstentions. The PS candidates will be present in 70 constituencies and supported by the PCF, EELV and LFI.
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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. 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.