The Paris judicial court declared inadmissible in summary proceedings, Thursday June 27, the third attempt by the Les Républicains party to exclude its president Eric Ciotti, who entered into an electoral alliance with the RN. The court thus rejected the party’s request to appoint an ad hoc representative to replace him.
The court, seized via an emergency procedure, rejected this request signed by 703 members of the national council of the Republicans, who demanded the appointment of a representative at the head of the party if Eric Ciotti did not convene a new political office before Wednesday , 6:30 p.m.. In a press release sent to AFP, LR took “act” of the court decision, which he interprets as “a refusal to intervene urgently in political questions”believing that she “does not decide anything on the merits”. Follow our live stream.
Last debate before the first round. Like Tuesday on TF1, Jordan Bardella for the RN and Gabriel Attal for the presidential majority will cross swords on France 2 from 8:50 p.m. But the left will this time be represented by the socialist Olivier Faure, while it was the rebellious Manuel Bompard who had held the contradiction during the first debate.
La France insoumise withdraws its nomination from a candidate for anti-Semitic messages. It is Reda Belkadi, candidate in the first constituency of Loir-et-Cher in the legislative elections, which posted anti-Semitic tweets “six years ago”. The LFI electoral committee “notes that this candidate has in fact violated the charter of commitment signed by all the candidates nominated by La France insoumise through which everyone undertakes to ‘reject all sexist, racist, anti-Semitic, LGBTIphobic comments, behavior and violence and all discrimination'”writes the party in a press release.
A “record” participation for French people abroad. The service had been stormed, causing access problems. Online voting by French people abroad for the first round of the legislative elections ended Thursday June 27 and recorded a record participation. As announced on the social network
The president is “the leader of the armies” et “the constitution is not honorary”. This is what the French Minister of the Armed Forces declared on Thursday, in response to the far right, who suggested that Emmanuel Macron would not be in charge on defense issues in the event of his party’s victory in the legislative. “In the essential areas of foreign policy and national security, he is required to take direct action, since under the Constitution, he negotiates and concludes treaties, since he is the head of the armies, since he presides over the defenselaunched Sébastien Lecornu in a message posted on X, quoting Charles de Gaulle.
The number of proxies continues to climb. The Ministry of the Interior counts 2,124,918 proxies established as of Wednesday June 26. “It’s twice as much as during the last election”, assures the ministry Thursday on the social network X, where one million proxies had been registered. Three quarters of these proxies “were carried out online”.
