9:02 p.m., Sunday June 9. France falls into a dizzying unknown, after the presidential announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly. Since then, the campaign has been in full swing to elect the 577 deputies who will make up the National Assembly and who will shape the future majority that will govern the country. This Tuesday, June 25, French people abroad began to vote – not without difficulty. In the columns of World, 220 public figures call for blocking the far right. Absent from this forum, the Republicans will also be absent from the debate organized this evening on TF1: the Council of State rejected LR’s request for interim relief.
The hiccup of the day: the chaotic beginnings of online voting for French people abroad
As with every election, French people abroad vote for the legislative elections a few days ahead of mainland France. And unlike voters present on national territory who are forced to go to the polls, nationals residing abroad have the possibility of voting online.
To do this, a portal dedicated to the vote was opened at noon this Tuesday on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Except that barely an hour after its launch, the web page crashed. On social networksseveral voters expressed their dissatisfaction after coming across a message informing them that the site was “under maintenance”.
On bug.” A difficulty in connecting that the France Diplomatie site explains by the presence of “a strong influx”. Don’t panic though, voters have until Thursday June 27 at noon to vote.
Today’s column: the call of the 220 to block the second round
By assuring this Monday that the Ecologists would withdraw in the second round in the event of a triangular against the RN, Marine Tondelier had launched a little music which was not long in being taken up. In a column published in The world this Tuesday, some 220 personalities are calling for a withdrawal agreement in the constituencies where the RN could win. Thus, in the event of a triangular tie in the second round, the least well placed candidate will be asked to withdraw in favor of the candidate “from the democratic forces”.
Among the big names in politics who signed this column: MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, outgoing deputy and former minister Clément Beaune, minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher, former head of government Jean-Marc Ayrault, the mayor of Marseille Benoit Payan, or the former MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, but no personality from the Republicans or the right wing of Macronie… Edouard Philippe, who dreams of a coalition which would go from the left of “government” to the “Republican” right is clearly not close to seeing its wish come true.
The debate of the day: the anger of Pécresse
This Tuesday on TF1, at 9 p.m., the first major debate of these early legislative elections takes place. And only three political shades will be represented. Thus, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will battle for the presidential majority, for the National Rally-Ciotti Jordan Bardella alliance, which aspires to replace the first. Finally, the face of the New Popular Front this evening will be the Insoumis Manuel Bompard.
Bitter at having been excluded from the ring, the Republicans took the matter to the Council of State for summary proceedings. But early in the afternoon, the judges at the Palais Royal rejected the right-wing party’s request. A few hours before the debate, the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse expressed annoyance to L’Express: “Since the 2022 presidential election, right-wing and far-right media in particular have been trying to make the Republicans invisible to raise the National Rally”…
The figure of the day: the threshold of one million proxies has been crossed
1,377,105. This is the number of powers of attorney made between June 10 and 23 inclusive, according to figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior. That is almost six times more than on D-7 of the first round of the 2022 legislative elections. A high level which can be explained both by the dates of the two rounds – further ahead in the summer than during traditional elections – but also by the stakes of the election, dramatized at its highest level.
By the left-wing coalition which sounds the alarm every day about the possibility of the extreme right coming to power. But also by the National Rally which insists in all directions that these elections constitute a “major turning point” and “unprecedented” in the political history of the country. And finally, by the President of the Republic himself, who raised the specter of a “civil war” in the event of one of the two opposing camps coming to power. So Emmanuel Macron takes up the antiphon he calls for each election: “me or chaos.”
Analysis of the day: the real assessment of the extreme right in Europe
Since the explosion caused by the dissolution of the National Assembly, the expression has been hanging on the lips of many observers and actors on the political scene: “The extreme right is at the gates of power”, they warn. It must be said that the arrival of the National Rally in Matignon would be a first under the Fifth Republic: no far-right government has been in charge since the end of the Vichy regime. But not a first on the Old Continent.
For several years, nationalist parties have flourished among some of our neighbors. In Italy for example, where the post-fascist political group Fratelli d’Italia is at the head of the government coalition. But also in Hungary, governed since 2010 by Viktor Orbàn. Until recently, Poland was also under the influence of PiS until it was voted out of power last October. But then, what does the far right do once in power? L’Express scrutinized its results in several European countries.