LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. The list of candidates for the legislative elections of June 12 and 17, 2022 is becoming clearer, with on the one hand a union of the sealed left and on the other a rally around the presidential majority. The results of the polls give the two blocks neck and neck for the moment…
The essential
- The dates of the legislative elections have been set for June 12 and 19, 2022. This new ballot aims to designate the 577 deputies who will make up the new National Assembly for the next five-year term. Voters will be able to choose whether or not to entrust a majority to Emmanuel Macron able to adopt his reforms until 2027.
- The 2022 legislative campaign had a decisive week with an agreement reached between LFI and the PS for a common bloc with EELV and the PCF, which had already rallied to Mélenchon. The “New Popular Ecological and Social Union” (NUPES) must officially invest its candidates for the legislative elections this Saturday, May 7: 50 for the Communists, 70 for the Socialists, 100 for the Ecologists and around 350 for the Insoumis. Jean-Luc Mélenchon indicated on France 2 on Friday that he himself “probably” will not be a candidate.
- The legislative elections are also being prepared in the presidential camp, where 187 candidates have already been unveiled, including some members of the government: Gérald Darmanin in the North, Elisabeth Borne in Calvados, Clément Beaune in Paris, but also Jean-Michel Blanquer and Gabriel Attal. Richard Ferrand (Renaissance, ex-LREM), Edouard Philippe (Horizons) and François Bayrou (MoDem) held a press conference at the end of the week to announce their confederation, “Together!”, in the legislative elections.
- This Sunday, May 8, traveling to her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, in Pas-de-Calais, Marine Le Pen announced that she would be a candidate for re-election on June 12 and 19 in the legislative elections.
- This Saturday, May 7, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union held a first convention. The opportunity to appear united. Manon Aubry, LFI MEP, announced that a program of several hundred points would be unveiled next week.
- The result of the latest poll on the 2022 legislative elections, conducted by Cluster 17 and published on Thursday, credits the left-wing alliance (Nupes) with 34% of voting intentions in the first round, ahead of the presidential majority (24.5%). and the RN (19.5%).
- Follow on this page the latest campaign news, polls, and information on how the ballot works.
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Asked at the microphone of Radio J, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis expressed his doubts about Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s ability to unite in the long term: “An Everything but Mélenchon is being built because it has not put in a position to be at the center of the left. This agreement will not be sustainable and will not hold.”
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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. In contrast, an older Harris Interactive poll (April 25) based on voting intentions predicts an absolute 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.