Eric Zemmour excluded three of his new MEPs from Reconquest, denouncing a “betrayal” led by Marion Maréchal. Meanwhile, Eric Ciotti still refuses his exclusion from LR, voted for by those he calls “mediocre rearguard people”.
The essential
- The 2024 legislative elections will take place on Sundays June 30 and July 7. The electoral campaign will therefore be brief. The parties have until June 16 to unveil their candidates.
- Marion Maréchal is excluded from Reconquête!, announced Éric Zemmour Wednesday evening on BFMTV. Earlier in the day, Marion Maréchal had called to vote for the candidates of the right-wing coalition nominated by the National Rally. Nicolas Bay and Guillaume Peltier, both recently elected MEPs with Reconquête, are also leaving the party.
- At Les Républicains, Éric Ciotti, who had also called for an alliance with the far-right party, was excluded. But he contests the procedure and assures that he will be “in [s]we’re working” at LR headquarters this morning.
- The Socialist Party, the Communist Party, the Ecologists and La France insoumise have found an “agreement in principle” on the distribution of constituencies during the legislative elections. The left forces will therefore not oppose several candidates. All parties called for “the creation of a new popular front”.
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06/12/24 – 11:53 p.m. – Marion Maréchal “take[d] act of [s]we exclude” from Reconquest!
END OF LIVE – On X, Marion Maréchal said “take[re] act of [s]we exclude Reconquest! by Éric Zemmour” and specify not to be “returning to the RN but to bring to life the necessary union of the rights to beat Emmanuel Macron and save [son] country”.
1️⃣ I acknowledge my exclusion from Reconquête! by Éric Zemmour because of my refusal to present candidates against the#UnionNationale.
2️⃣ I specify that I am not returning to the RN but to bring to life the necessary union of the rights to beat Emmanuel…
— Marion Maréchal (@MarionMarechal) June 12, 2024
06/12/24 – 11:28 p.m. – “Marion Maréchal has made the choice […] to prioritize the national interest”, says Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen reacted to Marion Maréchal’s press conference this Wednesday evening on. For the National Rally MP, “faced with the seriousness of the issues, Marion Maréchal made the choice, in the exceptional context that the country is experiencing, to prioritize the national interest over partisan considerations, by calling for support for the National Rally candidates. “, she said, before welcoming “this courageous position which will strengthen the patriotic dynamic”.
06/12/24 – 10:26 p.m. – “I remain the one and only legitimate LR candidate”, believes Christelle D’Intorni
The deputy for the 5th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes is the only one not to have been reinvested for the legislative elections by LR, in addition of course to Éric Ciotti. The one who supports the Niçois in his desire to make an alliance with the RN for the elections expressed his “stupefaction” Wednesday evening on taken against me,” she stressed, deploring a “political error.” And to affirm: “I remain the one and only legitimate LR candidate in the 5th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes.”
I am the only legitimate LR candidate in the 5th constituency of the Alpes-Maritimes!
Find my press release ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/wdaAdjROiN
— Christelle D’intorni (@C_Dintorni) June 12, 2024
06/12/24 – 9:53 p.m. – Éric Zemmour announces the exclusion of Reconquête! by Marion Maréchal
The former head of the European list is officially no longer part of Reconquêtes!, his boss, Éric Zemmour, announced this Wednesday evening on the BFMTV set. And Marion Maréchal is not the only one to have been excluded, Nicolas Bay and Guillaume Peltier were also kicked out.
06/12/24 – 9:44 p.m. – For Éric Zemmour, Marion Maréchal “broke the world record for betrayal”
Between Éric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal, war is declared. Invited on BFMTV this Wednesday evening, the boss of Reconquête! did not mince his words against his former head of the European list. “Marion Maréchal is lying,” said Éric Zemmour, who was invited to react to the MEP’s press conference given earlier in the day. For him, Marion Maréchal “broke the world record for treason”. Judging that she abandons the activists of R! “like dogs” to return to his “family clan”, he felt that his only objective was to “bargain a few miserable places for her and her friends”. Éric Zemmour said he was “disgusted and hurt”.
12/06/24 – 9:27 p.m. – For François Ruffin, “there is a huge slope to climb” against the RN
From Amiens on Wednesday evening, the rebellious outgoing deputy, François Ruffin, estimated that “there is a huge slope to climb” against the National Rally (RN) and that the time must above all be in the countryside. We must “with my activists, we go on the campaign to turn hearts door after door”, he said, denouncing “the union of racists and the well-off in the face”.
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Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly only a few minutes after the announcement of the first estimates of the results of the European elections on Sunday June 9. A “serious, heavy” decision taken in light of the overwhelming victory of the National Rally in the European vote. “I trust the French people to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations. I have heard your message, your concerns, and I will not leave them unanswered,” declared the president of the Republic. By this decision, and the appeal to article 12 of the Constitution of the 5th Republic, Emmanuel Macron de facto recorded the organization of early legislative elections aimed at composing a new National Assembly.
The French will therefore be called to vote in new elections which will arrive quickly, very quickly since the Constitution provides for new elections within 20 to 40 days following the dissolution. Emmanuel Macron has already set the dates for the election: the first round of the 2024 legislative elections will be held on Sunday June 30, followed by the second round a week later on Sunday July 7, 2024. That is to say less than three weeks after the announcement by the head of the state. Why so early ? Well because within the deadline provided for by the Constitution, the agenda for the coming months is busy, particularly with the start of the Olympic Games and the summer period and school holidays following, which limited the options for organizing the ballots.
The day after the announcement on the dissolution of the National Assembly and the organization of legislative elections, the different parties entered into campaigning, which will be express with barely three weeks between the announcement and the polls. The first key step is that of submitting applications, the deadline for which is Friday June 14, to allow the official campaign to begin on Monday June 17 and respect the two weeks of campaigning before an election.
It is time for negotiations before the launch of the official campaign. The left was the first to call for a union and even the formation of a “new popular front” from June 10. After meetings and several days of discussions, the four left-wing forces announced that they had reached an “agreement in principle” on the distribution of the 577 constituencies with a view to the legislative elections to present a single candidate in the first round. According to this agreement LFI will present 229 candidates, the PS will have 175, EELV will have 92 and the PCF will have 50. “The essential work on the program is still under discussion”, according to the socialists who affirm that it is not there will be “no concession on our values”.
On the right, alliances are also being discussed, but they are creating a stir. The president of the Les Républicains party proposed an alliance with the National Rally which showed itself inclined to a rapprochement. But that was without taking into account the majority of LR members who oppose the alliance and demand the dismissal of Eric Ciotti. The Zemmourist Reconquest party also tried to get closer to the RN via Marion Maréchal, but the Lepéniste party refused an alliance for fear that the more radical ideas of the Zemmourist would harm it.
Faced with these two alliances in formation, the presidential majority reacts. Emmanuel Macron seeks to expand his majority to the forces he considers to be part of the Republican arc, notably the socialist left and the Republican right. Above all, he castigated the extreme left and the extreme right and denounced “unnatural” alliances.
According to the Toluna Harris Interactive study for Challenges, M6 and RTL, the RN would win between 235 to 265 seats (compared to 89 currently) in the National Assembly, Renaissance and its allies would increase to 125 to 155 seats (compared to 249 today), Nupes would obtain 115 to 145 seats (compared to 153) and the Republicans would increase to 40 to 55 seats (compared to 74). This survey was carried out online from June 9 to 10, 2024.