Eight days before the first round of the legislative elections, on June 30, the express electoral campaign continues. Emmanuel Macron, who spoke on Friday during the Music Festival at the Elysée, ensures that “we do not want a country that stands back to back”. The president insisted that there are “extremes that we cannot let pass”. MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (Place Publique) called on the candidates of the left-wing alliance New Popular Front to withdraw in the second round of the legislative elections if, in the event of a triangular, they came third and were not able to to beat the National Rally (RN).
Information to remember
⇒ In the event of a triangular, the least well placed against the RN will have to withdraw, according to Raphaël Glucksmann
⇒ Emmanuel Macron sends the extremes back to back
⇒ To get out of the crisis, according to Marine Le Pen, “all that Macron will have left is resignation”
Legislative: in the event of a triangular, the least well placed against the RN will have to withdraw, according to Glucksmann
MEP Raphaël Glucksmann (Place Publique) called on the candidates of the left-wing alliance New Popular Front to withdraw in the second round of the legislative elections if they came third, in the event of a triangular, in order to beat the National Rally ( RN).
“Even when there are triangulars, I would not hesitate for there to be a withdrawal if ever the candidates of the New Popular Front are third and are not able to beat the National Rally,” he said. declared Friday on France 5. “Because my only objective is to ensure that there are not 300 deputies” from the RN at the end of the second round which will take place on July 7. The absolute majority in the National Assembly stands at 289 seats.
Macron sends the extremes back to back
President Emmanuel Macron once again sent the New Popular Front and the National Rally back to back on Friday, and defended his decision to dissolve the National Assembly and call early elections on June 30 and July 7. “There are extremes that we cannot let pass,” he insisted about the left and the far right, speaking at the Elysée during the Fête de la Musique. “I tell you in responsibility, we can’t seem to let them go up and say to ourselves ‘it’s very serious and it’s going to happen’. Now is the time to be responsible!”
“We don’t want a country that stands back to back! We don’t want any communitarianism! No separatism! No hate speech!”, he continued. “There is no racism that justifies anti-Semitism! And there is no anti-Semitism that can be justified by anything!”
“All that will remain for Macron is resignation,” says Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen estimated on Friday that “all that will remain for the President (of the Republic) is resignation to potentially emerge from a political crisis”, affirming that it was not a “request” from her part but from an “observation”. “I am not calling on Emmanuel Macron to resign. I am respectful of the institutions. I just note that, when there is a political blockage, when there is a political crisis, there are three possibilities,” she said. explained on the sidelines of a trip to Courrières, in the Pas-de-Calais constituency where she intends to be re-elected as a deputy.
“There is the reshuffle, there is the dissolution or there is the resignation of the president. The reshuffle, for once, in this circumstance, would not seem extremely useful to me. The dissolution has just been carried out for a year “The president will therefore only have to resign to potentially emerge from a political crisis,” she said. Emmanuel Macron indicated last week that he ruled out resigning, whatever the outcome of the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7.
Occitanie: free regional trains and buses for the legislative elections
Regional trains and buses will be free throughout the Occitanie region for the first and second round of the legislative elections, provided you go to your polling station, announced the region administered by socialist Carole Delga. This measure during the weekends of June 30 and July 7 is conditional on fairly light supporting documents concerning the coach but more restrictive for the trains.
To take the bus, users will only have to show their voter card or proof of registration on the electoral lists when boarding. For regional trains (TER), users will first have to complete an online form from June 24 for the first round, and from July 1 for the second round. They will then receive an email containing their ticket, which they must present, along with an identity document as well as a voter card or proof of registration on the electoral lists, in the event of an on-board inspection.