LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Marine Le Pen will speak in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). Candidate in this constituency, she will hold the first public meeting of her campaign, one week before the first round of the legislative elections.
The essential
- In 7 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.
- Marine Le Pen is organizing her first and only campaign meeting this Sunday in Hénin-Beaumont, in her stronghold of Pas-de-Calais. His speech is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. The presidential finalist is aiming for 150 deputies after the legislative elections.
- The boss of the LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, wishes to keep his parliamentary post in the event of re-election to the legislative elections. “There is always a fake dish after the presidential election, and people had not yet entered the campaign. One week before the first round, the time for mobilization has come”, he assured the JDD, this Sunday.
- The former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, now a legislative candidate in Loiret, was sprayed with white foam and insulted on a market in Montargis this Saturday. Two men were taken into custody.
- The survey by the Cluster17 institute, published on Friday June 3, places Nupes ahead 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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10:33 – Christophe Castaner taunts Jean-Luc Mélenchon on his desire to become Prime Minister
In an interview at Sunday newspaper, Christophe Castaner believes that “there is no concern” for the majority. The boss of the majority deputies also tackled Jan-Luc Mélenchon and his desire to become Prime Minister. “So it’s time to stop the trickery: Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not be Prime Minister, even if he dreams of taking his revenge after three lost presidential elections,” he said. And to add: “The Nupes program is all the clichés of the Soviet world.”
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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 involved 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.