End of the game on the intentions of each party: candidates for the legislative elections in the 577 constituencies have until 6 p.m. Sunday to submit their declaration of candidacy to the prefecture for the first round on June 30. Dissident candidates on the left, local alliances between the right and the majority, rallying of LR to the RN… everything should be known on Sunday evening, if not necessarily clear after several days of confusion.
Information to remember:
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon assures that he will not be Prime Minister without common agreement
- Jordan Bardella confirms the RN’s desire to privatize public broadcasting “eventually”
- The RN also assures that it will abolish the unemployment insurance reform if it comes to power
- Insoumis Adrien Quatennens announces “give up” his candidacy in the North
- Marine Le Pen’s sister, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, is a candidate in Sarthe
- Candidates for the elections must submit their candidacies for the early legislative elections before this Sunday evening 6 p.m.
- New demonstrations against the far right are organized this Sunday
- The captain of the Blues, Kylian Mbappé spoke out against “the extremes” and called on “all young people to go and vote”
Around twenty PS, LR or Liot leavers without a competitor to the presidential majority
The outgoing presidential majority should not present a candidate in around twenty constituencies held by elected officials from the right or left or from the centrist Liot group deemed constructive, we learned from concordant sources on Sunday at the end of the submission deadline. applications to the prefecture.
According to the lists of nominated candidates published by the three parties (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem) on Sunday evening, the majority will not present any in the constituencies of outgoing LR deputies Michèle Tabarot, Marie-Christine Dalloz, Virginie Duby-Muller, Emilie Bonnivard, Nicolas Forissier and Julien Dive. Agreements have also been made at the local level.
Jérôme Guedj (PS) will face a dissident Générations-LFI candidacy
The socialist Jérôme Guedj, target of attacks by rebellious France during the European campaign, will face him in the legislative elections a Generations candidate, Hella Kribi-Romdhane, with an LFI deputy, Philippe Juraver, we learned from sources on Sunday concordant.
Hella Kribi-Romdhane announced her candidacy “on behalf of the New Popular Front” in a video posted on Facebook on Sunday evening, alongside her deputy. The outgoing deputy Jérôme Guedj also submitted his candidacy in the 6th constituency of Essonne. According to the agreement between the parties of the new left alliance, this constituency belongs to the PS.
Jean Lassalle returns to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques
The double presidential candidate, Jean Lassalle ran for the legislative elections in the fourth constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, of which he was the deputy from 2002 to 2022. In this rural constituency straddling the Basque Country and Béarn, he will be notably opposed to the outgoing deputy Inaki Echaniz (PS/Popular Front), according to the list of candidates made official on Sunday by the prefecture.
Mayor for 40 years of the village of Lourdios-Ichère (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), champion of rurality, Jean Lassalle did not stand as a candidate in the 2022 legislative elections. He justified his decision by “medical imperatives”. Head of the Rural Alliance list, alongside the president of the hunters’ federation Willy Schraen, in the last European elections, the Béarnais received 2.4% of the vote.
Reconquest invests 330 candidates in the legislative elections
Éric Zemmour, president of the Reconquest party, announced on X (formerly Twitter) that 330 candidates have been nominated for the next legislative elections on June 30 and July 7. A limited number of candidates “in order to be sure not to harm other right-wing candidates engaged in this campaign”. He also specifies that he refused to nominate candidates “in front of the architects of national unity. Reconquête provides its support to Éric Ciotti, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Christelle D’Intorni, Charles Prats and Guilhem Carayon”.
For the victory of our ideas and against Islamo-leftism, Reconquest nominates 330 candidates for the legislative elections.
In the great fight that is coming, all the right-wing forces, without exception, must absolutely mobilize. It is therefore with a sense of duty that…
— Eric Zemmour (@ZemmourEric) June 16, 2024
LR nominates a candidate against Éric Ciotti in Nice
The Republicans (LR) have nominated a candidate, Virgile Vanier, in Nice against Éric Ciotti, president of LR who caused a division in the party after advocating an alliance with the National Rally, a member of the Republican Party told AFP on Sunday. investiture committee.
Presented as an entrepreneur from the Alpes-Maritimes in his forties, Virgile Vanier is “a right-wing sympathizer who came to see LR this week to be a candidate” following the shock created by Éric Ciotti’s alliance with the RN , this member of the commission explained to AFP on condition of anonymity.
Kylian Mbappé calls on “all young people” to “go and vote”
At a press conference with Didier Deschamps, on the eve of the match against Austria, the captain of the French team, Kylian Mbappé, spoke about the legislative elections in France and he took the opportunity to call “all young people” to “go vote”: “Today, we see that the extremes are at the gates of power and we have the opportunity to change that.” He also claimed to be “against extremes, ideas that divide”.
The Blues striker also defended his teammate Marcus Thuram, affirming that “he did not go too far” by explaining on Saturday that we had to “fight so that the RN does not pass”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon assures that he “will not” be Prime Minister without common agreement
“If you think that I should not be Prime Minister, I will not be,” declared Sunday on France 3 the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, specifying that “it is up to the political parties which constitute the coalition ” from the left to “make the right decision”.
“People repeated for days and days that I was divisive. I was accused of everything and anything, of anti-Semitism, of this, of that (…). I will never be the problem, I will always be on the side of the solution,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The RN in power will abolish the unemployment insurance reform and “ultimately” privatize public broadcasting
The National Rally, if it comes to power, will remove the unemployment insurance reform that the government plans to bring into force at the end of the year, Jordan Bardella said on France 3 on Sunday. millions of French people who are affected by unemployment(…) I’m a little fed up with people systematically asking for the same efforts over and over again,” declared Jordan Bardella.
The new unemployment insurance reform must be decided by decree by July 1 to come into force on December 1. It includes in particular a duration of compensation reduced from 18 to 15 months, and the need to have worked eight months over the last 20 months to be compensated (compared to six over the last 24 months currently).
Jordan Bardella also confirmed on Sunday that he wanted to “ultimately” privatize public broadcasting if the RN comes to power after the legislative elections. “The ambition that we had for the presidential election remains relevant, that of ultimately privatizing public broadcasting to save money (…) Obviously, that cannot be done in 24 hours.”
Marie-Caroline Le Pen, sister of Marine, candidate in Sarthe
Marie-Caroline Le Pen, sister of Marine Le Pen, is a candidate for the legislative elections in the fourth constituency of Sarthe, she announced on Sunday on Ile-de-France, is running in the former constituency of François Fillon.
Insoumis Adrien Quatennens announces “renouncing” his candidacy
LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens announced on Sunday that he would not present his candidacy in the North, contested by his party’s partners within the New Popular Front, due to his four-month suspended prison sentence for domestic violence.
“I no longer intend for my candidacy to be used against La France insoumise and the New Popular Front to harm them at a time when all energy must be used to beat the extreme right,” he declared. in a speech to the press.
Divisions on the left
On the left, the offer has already been known since the formation of the New Popular Front which managed to agree in a few days on a program and candidates. But, the day after demonstrations against the far right which brought together, according to the authorities, 250,000 people throughout France, including 75,000 in Paris (Lyon demonstrated for its part on Sunday), this alliance, which brings together anti-capitalist Philippe Poutou former president François Hollande, must still convince that it is capable of resisting the heterogeneity of its components.
In the first crisis experienced by the new alliance, LFI closed the door on Saturday to any challenge to its nomination choices after having dismissed several deputies critical of the personality and line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, such as Danielle Simonnet, Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière.
Gabriel Attal makes announcements on purchasing power
At the center, after the rout of the Europeans and the “stunning” of the dissolution, the majority is trying to remobilize little by little under the leadership of Gabriel Attal.
On purchasing power, the first theme put forward by the French, the Prime Minister on Saturday promised several measures in the event of victory for the presidential camp, such as a reduction in electricity bills by 15% “from next winter” or an increase in the amount of the so-called “Macron” bonus, paid by companies to their employees.
The crisis continues among the Republicans
On the side of LR, after the incredible week following the solitary choice of its president Eric Ciotti to ally himself with the RN, we try as best we can to maintain a line independent of the executive as well as the far right. But in several departments – such as that of the Prime Minister, Hauts-de-Seine – “non-aggression pacts” between the majority and the right seem de facto to be put in place, and outgoing LR deputies will be assured of being able to apply without Macronist against them.
On the far right, the closing of applications will make it possible to judge the rallies led by Eric Ciotti. If the boss of the RN Jordan Bardella announced that there would be “a common candidate” “in 70 constituencies”, the Nice resident does not seem to have succeeded in taking no national figure with him.