According to the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly, only around thirty parliamentarians do not wish to stand again.
The first round of the presidential election has not yet taken place but the parties are already thinking about the legislative elections. Invited to BFMTV on Monday March 21, Christophe Castaner indicated that 80% of La République en Marche deputies were going to stand again.
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“About thirty parliamentarians from my group have told me that they do not wish to run again. Maybe a few will complete this“, declared the president of the LREM group to the National Assembly. And to add that “the essential“deputies”want to continue the fight“. Asked about the possibility of the dissolution of the Assembly to organize early legislative, Christophe Castaner assures that it does not “doesn’t seem relevant“. “I think she’s rumored“, he swept.
Three weeks before the first ballot, and with the threat of record abstention looming, Christophe Castaner assures us that “this election is not played“. “No election is ever played. It would be a political fault to believe that it is and an ethical fault: to say to the French: ”Circulate, there is nothing to see”, it is always a fault.»
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