The National Rally, allied to Éric Ciotti, dominated the first round of the legislative elections with 33.1% of the votes, ahead of the New Popular Front (28%). For its part, Ensemble, the presidential coalition, gathered 20% of the votes. The left called on its candidates who came in third place to block the far right by withdrawing, while the presidential majority is divided on its attitude towards the candidates from La France insoumise. For Gabriel Attal, Prime Minister: “Not a single vote must go to the National Rally” during the second round of the legislative elections.
Key information to remember
⇒ “Not a single vote should go to the National Rally”, warns Gabriel Attal
⇒ In Paris, the left is strengthened, the PS regains a seat
⇒ Triangulars for several ministers
Macron and the RN: the story of a rampart that became a simple spectator
The presidential camp suffered a heavy defeat in the first round of the legislative elections on Sunday, June 30. The central bloc was relegated behind the RN and the left.
“Not a single vote should go to the National Rally,” says Attal
“Not a single vote should go to the National Rally” in the second round of the legislative elections, said Sunday evening the Prime Minister and leader of the outgoing majority, Gabriel Attal, from the Matignon hotel. “The lesson this evening is that the extreme right is at the gates of power” and “so our objective is clear: to prevent the National Rally from having an absolute majority in the second round,” he declared , denouncing the “disastrous project” of the Lepenist party.
Gabriel Attal, who is leading his camp’s campaign, called for “the withdrawal of our candidates whose retention in third position would have resulted in the election of a National Rally deputy over another candidate who defends the values of the Republic like us”, without specify the number.
In Paris, the left is strengthened, the PS regains a seat
In Paris, the left emerged strengthened from the first round of the legislative elections, sending nine deputies to the National Assembly, including the first deputy PS Emmanuel Grégoire, and coming in first in 13 of the 18 constituencies. It’s a hit: out of the 18 constituencies in the capital, half (9) saw the candidates of the New Popular Front elected in the first round.
These are, unsurprisingly, those located in eastern Paris, a bastion of the left where LFI had taken the lion’s share in 2022, with six deputies out of nine from the left. All (Aymeric Caron, Danièle Obono, Sarah Legrain, Sophia Chikirou and Rodrigo Arenas) were re-elected, with the exception of the dissident Danielle Simonnet, in a favorable ballot.
Furthermore, the left keeps Seine-Saint-Denis with the re-elections in the first round of six of its deputies, including the figures Clémentine Autain (62.65%), Eric Coquerel (65.28%) and Stéphane Peu (71.8%). The dissidents Raquel Garrido (5th) and Alexis Corbière (7th), historical figures of the LFI party but not invested by the New Popular Front (NFP) movement, are both qualified for the second round.
Attal qualified, several ministers in triangular
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal came out on top in the first round of legislative elections in Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, as did several of his ministers, many of whom will be taking part in three-way races.
Two outgoing ministers and MPs – Sabrina Agresti-Roubache and Marie Guévenoux – announced their withdrawal after coming third in their constituencies, respectively in Marseille and Essonne, clearly calling for a vote against the RN. Former minister Clément Beaune was eliminated in the first round against NFP candidate Emmanuel Grégoire, deputy mayor of Paris.
The former Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, also qualified in the 6th constituency of Calvados, with 28.93% of the votes, but behind the RN candidate Nicolas Carbrix (36.26%). NFP candidate Noé Gauchard (23.16%), able to maintain his position, announced that he was withdrawing. The outgoing president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, came first with 42.90% of the votes in the 5th constituency of Yvelines, ahead of NFP candidate Yassine Benyettou (27.32%) and candidate LR- RN Jacques Myard (22.90%). For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, came first in the 10th constituency of the North ahead of the RN, with 36.03% of the votes.