After a week of twists and turns and confusion to urgently establish alliances and nominate candidates, the lightning campaign for the first round of the legislative elections on June 30 officially begins on Monday under high tension. Since 6 p.m. Sunday, all candidates for one of the 577 deputy seats have been registered at the prefecture. Now time for field meetings, sending electoral propaganda and television spots.
Information to remember
⇒ Mbappé tackles “extremes”
⇒ Nice: LR nominates a candidate against Eric Ciotti
⇒ Reconquest absent from almost half of the constituencies
Mbappé tackles “extremes”
The day after Marcus Thuram’s clear stance against the RN, the captain of the French team Kylian Mbappé launched a message “against the extremes” on Sunday, without formally taking sides with a view to the legislative elections. June 30 and July 7.
“I think we are at a crucial moment in the history of our country. The situation is unprecedented, which is why I want to address all the French people and the young generation who can make a difference. I call on young people to go and vote, we see that the extremes are at the gates of power, we have the opportunity to choose the future of our country,” he added.
Nice: LR nominates a candidate against Eric Ciotti
The Republicans (LR) have nominated a candidate, Virgile Vanier, in Nice against Eric Ciotti, president of LR who caused a division in the party after having advocated an alliance with the National Rally, a member of the Republican Party told AFP on Sunday. investiture committee.
Presented as an entrepreneur from the Alpes-Maritimes in his forties, specialist in logistics, Virgile Vanier is “a right-wing sympathizer who came to see LR this week to be a candidate” following the shock created by Eric’s alliance Ciotti with the RN, this member of the commission explained to AFP on condition of anonymity.
Around twenty PS, LR or Liot leavers without a competitor to the presidential majority
The outgoing presidential majority should not present a candidate in around twenty constituencies held by elected officials from the right or left or from the centrist Liot group deemed constructive, we learned from concordant sources on Sunday at the end of the submission deadline. applications to the prefecture.
According to the lists of nominated candidates published by the three parties (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem) on Sunday evening, the majority will not present any in the constituencies of outgoing LR deputies Michèle Tabarot, Marie-Christine Dalloz, Virginie Duby-Muller, Emilie Bonnivard, Nicolas Forissier and Julien Dive.
Jérôme Guedj (PS) will face a dissident Générations-LFI candidacy
The socialist Jérôme Guedj, target of attacks by rebellious France during the European campaign, will face him in the legislative elections a Generations candidate, Hella Kribi-Romdhane, with an LFI deputy, Philippe Juraver, we learned from sources on Sunday concordant.
Hella Kribi-Romdhane announced her candidacy “on behalf of the New Popular Front” in a video posted on Facebook on Sunday evening, alongside her deputy.
Reconquest absent from almost half of the constituencies
The far-right Reconquest movement will only present candidates in 330 constituencies out of 577 to favor “the architects of national unity” on the right, its president Eric Zemmour announced on X on Sunday evening. “Reconquête therefore supports Eric Ciotti, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, (LR MP) Christelle D’Intorni and Guilhem Carayon”, the president of the Young Republicans, indicates Eric Zemmour who regrets that the National Rally refused “a real National Union.
“We would have liked to campaign in a true National Union, but the National Rally has repeatedly refused our proposal,” he lamented.
Jean Lassalle returns to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
The double presidential candidate Jean Lassalle ran for the legislative elections in the fourth constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, of which he was the deputy from 2002 to 2022.
In this rural constituency straddling the Basque Country and Béarn, he will be notably opposed to the outgoing deputy Inaki Echaniz (PS/Popular Front), according to the list of candidates made official on Sunday by the prefecture.