The Republicans did not resist the divisions. The boss of the far-right party, Jordan Bardella, announced on the evening of Tuesday June 11 that his party will support “several dozen” “outgoing” or “invested” LR deputies on June 30 and July 7. He said he would continue to speak with Eric Ciotti “in the coming hours”. A political bureau is due to meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. at LR headquarters.
Information to remember
⇒ The National Rally will invest “dozens” of “LR candidates”
⇒ Legislative: Macron reveals his battle plan
⇒ Thousands of people demonstrate against the RN in Rennes and Orléans
The National Rally will invest “dozens” of “LR candidates”
LR boss Eric Ciotti caused an earthquake on Tuesday within his party by calling for people to join the National Rally, without managing to bring with him for the moment other party leaders, most of whom were ulcerated by his decision. The president of LR, who considers his party “too weak” to oppose Macronie and the RN, estimated that the right needed this agreement to preserve its representation in the National Assembly which today has 61 deputies , many of whom are not on his line.
He assured that he would be followed by the president of young people LR Guilhem Carayon, candidate in Tarn, the No. 2 on the European list Céline Imart and “dozens of parliamentarians”. Jordan Bardella confirmed, Tuesday June 11, an agreement between the National Rally and The Republicans for the legislative elections, with several dozen LR candidates who will be nominated or supported, including outgoing deputies.
Legislative: Macron reveals his battle plan
After the thunderclap of the dissolution, Emmanuel Macron reveals, Wednesday June 12, his battle plan in order to try to wrest a “clear majority” for the rest of the five-year term and counter the National Rally, at the gates of power.
The president, who had promised to return very quickly to the French after his surprise decision on Sunday to dissolve the National Assembly on the evening of catastrophic European elections for his camp, gives a press conference at 11:00 a.m. at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris. “I’m going there to win,” he insisted in Le Figaro Magazinesaying he wanted to “reach out to all those who are ready to come and govern” with him and ruling out any resignation whatever the outcome of the vote.
Thousands of people demonstrate against the RN in Rennes and Orléans
Several thousand people demonstrated Tuesday evening in Paris, Rennes and Orléans in particular, to express their rejection of the National Rally and their refusal to see the far right take the head of the government, according to AFP journalists on site. In Paris, 2,800 people demonstrated at Place de la République, the police headquarters told AFP.
The rally took place in a good-natured atmosphere, with a crowd chanting “Popular Front”, and numerous signs “Fuck the National Front”, noted an AFP journalist. Marion, 18, a political science student in Paris and who says she is not usually an activist, was already at Place de la République yesterday and ready to come back “as much as necessary”.
Attal candidate for the legislative elections, as well as around twenty ministers
Gabriel Attal and several of his ministers will run again in the early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7, those concerned announced on social networks. The Prime Minister will represent himself in his constituency, the tenth of Hauts-de-Seine, in Vanves, where he was elected with 59.85% of the votes in 2022, against the socialist Cécile Soubelet (40.15%), according to her entourage. He made this announcement to the Renaissance deputies on Tuesday morning, before whom he promised to go “to the end of (his) duty” to “avoid the worst” in these elections, where the far right is the favorite.
His name is among the more than 150 incumbents re-invested Tuesday evening by the presidential Renaissance party. Among her predecessors in Matignon, Elisabeth Borne will represent herself in the 6th constituency of Calvados. After hesitating, the outgoing president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet will return to the campaign in the 5th constituency of Yvelines. Second in the protocol order of the government, the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, who did not run in 2022, confirmed Tuesday that he would not be a candidate, during a campaign launch meeting in Eure.
Attal at Renaissance: “our goal is to reassure”
The presidential majority, taken by surprise by the decision toEmmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly, must “reassure” in the face of this “part of the unknown”, and “impose” the “thesis of the three blocs” extreme left/majority/extreme right, advocated Gabriel Attal Tuesday evening during the executive office of Renaissance. “The President of the Republic is legitimate in having made this decision since the institutions allow it,” declared the Prime Minister in front of the executives of the presidential party, according to several participants.
But this decision “is scary” because it “brings us into a part of the unknown”. “Our goal is to reassure. Because all the other blocks are neither credible nor reassuring,” also declared Gabriel Attal. The “thesis of the three blocks”, of “three choices”, “it must be imposed”. As for the left, which adopted the principle of an alliance in the first round on Monday, “let’s never talk about ‘Popular Front'”. “Let’s say Nupes, always,” said the Prime Minister.
Anticipated legislative elections: two appeals filed before the Constitutional Council
Two appeals were filed Tuesday before the Constitutional Council against the decree organizing the ballot for the legislative elections and La France Insoumise announced that it would soon file a third, protesting “against the freezing of the electoral lists”. “What is being criticized are delay issues which will make the elections too short,” explains Jean-Baptiste Soufron, member of the Association for the Defense of Constitutional Freedoms (Adelico), bringing the first appeal.