Three weeks of campaigning that will have disoriented an entire country. Punctuated by almost daily twists and turns, the early legislative elections, called on June 9 by Emmanuel Macron, have often defied the limits of political understanding. Under the astonished gaze of their fellow citizens, 4,011 candidates for deputy are running for the first round of voting, Sunday, June 30. Listed as “an essential time for clarification” by the Head of State on the evening of his defeat in the European elections, the shortest campaign of the Ve République exposes the French as rarely before to the possibility of seeing the extreme right come to power.
Monday, June 10, the day after the dissolution. Emmanuel Macron brings together party leaders Stéphane Séjourné (Renaissance), Edouard Philippe (Horizons) and François Bayrou (MoDem) for a dinner at the Elysée. The latter wants to convince the head of state that it is necessary at all costs “demacronize” the legislative campaign. Understand: let Emmanuel Macron step back. But the President of the Republic does not hear it that way. “That’s good, I’m holding a press conference tomorrow.”he retorts to his historic ally, a little provocatively.
Against the advice of his supporters, the head of state is deployed in all areas; on television, in a letter to the French and even in a podcast lasting an hour and forty-five minutes, making his words his only electoral weapon. But the head of state seems to be in denial of the rejection he arouses, while his deputies, on the ground, are weighed down by his media omnipresence.
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In this blitzkrieg, another phenomenon threatens them just as much: the polarization of the debate between the extreme right and the united left-wing parties. On the evening of June 9, when on the television screens installed at Bellevilloise, in Paris, where the electoral evening of the head of the Socialist Party (PS)-Public Square list, Raphaël Glucksmann, is being held, Emmanuel Macron announces the dissolution, It takes less than a minute for the left to regain its historical reflexes of union in the face of the danger from the extreme right. In the room, the activists chant ” unit “, ” unit “, ” unit “. The fratricidal wars of the electoral campaign between “rebels” and socialists have not been forgotten, but responsibility prevails.
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The left-wing parties agree on Monday, June 10, to form a New Popular Front. For four days and as many nights, five delegations from the PS, the Ecologists, La France insoumise (LFI), the Communist Party (PCF) and Place publique worked to establish a common government program and nominate a single candidate per constituency. White smoke in the evening of June 13.
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