DATE 2ND PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. On Sunday April 24, 2022, the second round of presidential elections will be held and will designate the next President of the Republic. What are the next elections? We tell you everything.
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[Mis à jour le 12 avril 2022 à 12h30] The second round of the presidential election will be played between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen and will elect the next president on April 24. We will therefore have to wait a few more days before going to vote, especially since the campaign is relaunched between the two rounds, and can upset the dynamics.
The two weeks will allow the two qualified candidates to campaign, to try to rally and convince other voters, but also to compete in the traditional debate between two rounds scheduled for Wednesday, April 20. From April 15, and throughout the week preceding the second round, until April 22, the two qualified candidates will have the possibility, once again, of being in the campaign, to specify the programs and the measures that they want to put in place for the next five-year term. It is on April 27 that the next President of the Republic will be officially proclaimed, when the Constitutional Council will validate the results of the election. To find out more, browse our paper dedicated to the main dates of the electoral calendar.
What is the date of the second round of the 2022 presidential election?
The 2022 presidential election is the 12and of the Fifth Republic and the 11th by direct universal suffrage. The ballot is called a two-round first-past-the-post system. The second round takes place 14 days after the first round. It will be Sunday, April 24. To take into account the time difference, voters in Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyana, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and French Polynesia vote on Saturday April 23 for the second round. They had voted on April 9 for the first round. This electoral calendar had been definitively presented by Gérard Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, during the Council of Ministers on Tuesday July 13, 2021. On April 27, 2022, three days after the second round of the election, the Constitutional Council must validate the results of the election and officially proclaim the name of the new president or the new president of the French Republic.
What is the date of the inter-round debate?
Before the second round of the presidential election, the televised debate between the two rounds takes place. Appeared in 1974 during the confrontation between Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand, it has become a tradition. This year, it should be held on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, according to several reliable sources. In 2017, took place on May 3, 2017 and opposed Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. The audience was 16.5 million viewers, the lowest audience since the introduction of this type of debate.
What is the President’s inauguration date?
The investiture of the new President of the French Republic is fixed ten days after the second round of the presidential election in France, at the latest on the last day of the mandate of the outgoing President, unless there is a vacancy in the following a resignation or death. This investiture designates the transfer of power between the outgoing president and the elected president, but also that of all the traditional and formal, civil and military devices. It takes place during an official ceremony marking the start of a new term of office for the president who will be elected at the end of the second round, set this year for April 24, 2022. If there is no specific rule on the course of this investiture, the person who won the April 24 election will however have to agree on a date with his predecessor. The five-year term of the current president, Emmanuel Macron, will end on May 13, 2022: this date is therefore the deadline for the newly elected candidate to take office.
Date of submission of campaign accounts
The filing of campaign accounts is the last deadline for this election. It is set this year for June 24, 2022. It is under the authority of the Constitutional Council that the candidates will be obliged to submit to this rule, as in the last elections. The goal is for the 9 members of this Council to validate these accounts, to allow candidates to be reimbursed according to their score. This reimbursement is in fact conditional and not everyone will be able to benefit from it in the same way: if it amounts to 47.5% of the expenditure ceiling for those who obtained more than 5% of the votes cast in the first round, for those who would have obtained a lower score, the amount reimbursed drops to 4.75%.
What are the dates of the legislative elections?
This year 2022, the legislative elections will take place on Sundays June 12 and 19. The dates of the votes are adapted to French people living abroad and from French Polynesia: the first round will take place for them a week in advance compared to mainland France, to take into account the geographical distance. As for the overseas departments and collectivities, they will vote on the Saturday preceding the election in mainland France. The purpose of the French voters’ vote is to designate 577 deputies for 5 years of mandate, among which 11 deputies who represent the French living outside France. The 577 constituencies within the framework of which the election of each deputy takes place are delimited by the electoral code within each department, according to the size of the population. Legislative elections are systematically organized the same year and the month following the presidential election since the introduction of the five-year term and the inversion of the electoral calendar decided in 2001. As a reminder, the deputies are elected by universal direct ballot uninominal majority to two rounds per constituency.