Faced with the National Rally, which finished at the top of the first round of the legislative elections with 33.2% of the votes according to the latest Ipsos estimates, the other political forces immediately disclosed their voting instructions for the second round, which will take place on July 7.
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In a statement released Sunday evening, Les Républicains (LR), who won 10% of the vote with their center-right allies, indicated that they were not giving voting instructions for the second round of voting. “Where we are not present in the second round, considering that voters are free to choose, we are not giving national instructions and are letting the French people express themselves in conscience,” the LR leadership indicated in a statement, affirming in passing that “Macronism is dead.”
François-Xavier Bellamy, head of the LR list in the last European elections, seems to have chosen his side in the event of a duel between the National Rally and the New Popular Front in certain constituencies in the second round. “The danger that threatens our country today is the extreme left,” he declared on TF 1.
Marion Maréchal, excluded from Reconquête at the start of the campaign after calling for support for candidates from the Éric Ciotti-RN alliance, invited the candidates of the Republicans to withdraw so as “not to pave the way for the far left”.
Withdrawals in case of triangular
On the hard left, while the New Popular Front obtained 28.1% of the vote on Sunday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon gave a clear voting instruction for the second round. “Nowhere will we allow the RN to win. (…) Our instruction is simple, direct and clear. Not one vote, not one more seat for the RN,” urged the leader of La France Insoumise, who described this election as a “heavy and indisputable defeat” for President Emmanuel Macron. “We will withdraw our candidacy,” affirmed Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
In a press release issued shortly after 8 p.m., Ensemble, which obtained 21% of the vote according to initial estimates, also announced a withdrawal “in favor of candidates capable of beating the National Rally and with whom we share the essential: the values of the Republic.” “Faced with the threat of a victory by the extreme right, we call on all political parties to act responsibly and do the same,” the party stated in its press release.
“The time has come for a broad, clearly democratic and republican gathering,” Macron says
The Head of State also spoke in the evening. “The high turnout in the first round of these legislative elections demonstrates the importance of this vote for all our compatriots and the desire to clarify the political situation,” he declared this Sunday evening. “Their democratic choice obliges us. Faced with the National Rally, the time has come for a broad, clearly democratic and republican rally for the second round.”
For his part, Édouard Philippe called on the Horizons candidates who came third to withdraw to avoid the election of deputies from the National Rally or La France Insoumise.
