LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. After having given up running for the legislative elections, Marion Maréchal will finally be a substitute for Stanislas Rigault, invested by Reconquest, in the 2nd constituency of Vaucluse. The latest news live.
The essential
- The 2022 legislative elections will take place on Sundays June 12 and 19. The French will elect their 577 deputies, one per constituency, to sit in the National Assembly.
- Legislative candidates have until Friday, May 20 to file their candidacy in the prefecture of their department. On the left, the deposits were complicated by the absence of a “Nupes” shade in the new color chart provided by the Ministry of the Interior.
- Marion Maréchal will finally stand in the legislative elections as a substitute for Stanislas Rigault, the boss of Generation Z, the youth movement with Eric Zemmour. It’s at Provence that Marion Maréchal has confided her intention to contribute “to the collective effort”.
- Appointed Prime Minister on Monday, Elisabeth Borne will still remain a candidate in the legislative elections in the 6th constituency of Calvados. But if she lost this election, her legitimacy as head of government would be severely tested.
- Damien Abad “will clarify his situation by Friday”: the outgoing LR deputy, reinvested by his party for the 2022 legislative elections, seems to hesitate to join the Macron camp.
- 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.
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09:46 – For Marine Le Pen, “Mme Borne is Mr. Macron bis”
The RN candidate for the legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais comments this morning on the appointment of Elisabeth Borne to Matignon, on France Inter: “I will be delighted that a woman is appointed to this position on the day when it will no longer be a major information. The reality is that it does not hide the policy that will be implemented Emmanuel Macron through Mrs. Borne. Ms. Borne is Mr. Macron bis. It’s the same profile, it’s the same ideas, it’s the same cold, administrative, technocratic vision, and the same brutal achievements.”
09:46 – Jean-François Copé: “The right of government needs to renovate in depth”
“LR needs to renovate in depth. The right of government needs to renovate in depth,” said former minister François Copé on LCI. “If we think we will win back the hearts of the French by doing exactly what we did between 2017 and 2022, we are making a mistake.” Jean-François Copé regrets “the fact of having only been in a logic of opposition to Emmanuel Macron”. He invites his political family to “imagine a totally different project, which of course includes our great values, that of authority, that of progress”.
09:35 – Marion Maréchal finally substitute for Stanislas Rigault in the legislative elections
The executive vice-president of the Reconquest party! had, at first, given up participating in the 2022 legislative elections, due to her current pregnancy. Finally, she informs today the daily Provence of his “contribution to the collective effort” for the Reconquest party, by presenting himself as a substitute for Stanislas Rigault in the 2nd constituency of Vaucluse. Marion Maréchal was MP for Vaucluse from 2012 to 2017, but in the 3rd constituency, and invested by the National Rally.
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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?
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.