Three weeks of blitzkrieg campaigning began before the first round of legislative elections on June 30 and then the second on July 7. Have you not followed all the developments since the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron? We give you a daily recap every evening at 7:30 p.m. in our “Operation Matignon”.
This Tuesday, DSK returns to give us a shocking sentence, the 21-year-old candidate Nicolas Baudot is launching without a budget, nor a party and with an HQ at his grandparents’ house and Emmanuel Macron definitely did not hear this call from a resident of Val-de-Marne to “shut your mouth”, saying out loud what majority leaders, ministers and deputies are thinking quietly.
The number of the day
2.000. This is the number of bulletins printed by Nicolas Baudot. The 21-year-old young man is running without budget or label in the 5th constituency of Côte d’Or. It was difficult for him to hope to be reimbursed for the advanced costs, so he became a “do it yourself” expert. “I only printed 2,000 ballots [pour en dispatcher huit par bureau, selon ses calculs] out of the 160,000 recommended […] and my HQ is with my grandparents in Echenon. » In total, Nicolas Baudot’s budget should not exceed 200 euros. He gives his tips and tells his political adventure to our journalist, Elise Martin, here.
Sentence of the day
« In the first round, everyone will find among the candidates the one who suits them best. In the second round, […] the Democrats will know without hesitation how to vote: eliminate the far-right candidate. In the event of a duel between an RN candidate and an LFI candidate […] you should not hesitate either, even if you hold your nose. » »
He has withdrawn from political life since the Sofitel affair in New York but, this Tuesday, he gave his opinion. And Dominique Strauss-Kahn called for “eliminating the far-right candidate” in the second round of the legislative elections on July 7, even if it means voting for LFI “by holding one’s nose”.
“You have to know how to choose your best enemy,” wrote the former socialist minister and former director of the IMF in a column published by the magazine Challenges. The ex-socialist baron also regrets seeing the choice reduced to “a heterogeneous coalition” on the left “comprising real democrats and real totalitarians”, or “a homogeneous coalition of real totalitarians, all detestable” on the right, the center being in his eyes “unable to find a majority in the country”.
Today’s trend
Emmanuel Macron continues to campaign for the legislative elections, against the advice of a large part of his camp. On each occasion, the Head of State, deaf to all calls for more reserve, says a few unequivocal words: “I wish us the best for the days to come,” he said on Friday. to the public gathered in the courtyard of the Elysée for the Fête de la Musique.
Inaugurating the Saint-Denis – Pleyel metro station on Monday, the president welcomed “collective work”, as the Republic “knows how” to do, “by bringing together all the forces of the Nation”. The day before, he had sent a letter to the French distributed by the regional daily press. And that’s not counting the terrain of social networks. The podcast “Generation Do It Yourself” began broadcasting an hour and forty-five interviews with the head of state.
Panicked by the presidential unpopularity, majority leaders, ministers and outgoing deputies are nevertheless urgently asking him to stay away from the campaign. Candidates, such as the outgoing Renaissance deputy Christophe Marion (Loir-et-Cher), no longer even want to appear under the Macron label. During a meeting at the Elysée the day after the dissolution, the leader of Modem Français Bayou himself suggested “demacronizing the legislative campaign,” reports an outgoing MP. ” That’s why je vais faire une conférence de presse “, the president would then have replied, according to the same source.
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“Those who criticize him for speaking out today would accuse him of hiding if he didn’t. Its only interest is the French, not the Parisian microcosm,” a historic Macronist complained to AFP. The fact remains that in a video that went viral, a sympathizer even got annoyed with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on June 17: “You are good, but you will have to tell the president to keep his mouth shut.” For the moment, Emmanuel Macron has, according to our sources, not responded his traditional “I hear it”.
