Candidates for the legislative elections in the 577 constituencies have until 6 p.m. this Sunday to declare themselves to the prefecture.
Dissident candidates on the left, local alliances between the right and the majority, rallying of LR to the RN… everything should be clarified this evening.
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MEASURES FOR PURCHASING POWER
The presidential camp must unveil its program for the legislative elections tomorrow. The Prime Minister revealed some of the main points last night. Gabriel Attal wants above all to put in place measures in favor of purchasing power.
CAMPAIGN UPDATE
A week after the thunderclap caused by the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron, we take stock of the legislative election campaign.
LAST HOURS TO APPLY. Applicants in the 577 constituencies have until 6 p.m. to submit their declaration of candidacy to the prefecture for the first round on June 30.
AFTERMATH OF ANTI-RN DEMONSTRATIONS. Rallies against the far right brought together 250,000 people across France yesterday, according to the authorities, including 75,000 in Paris.
OUTGOING MEMBERS NOT INVESTED BY LFI. Within the New Popular Front, the decision of La France insoumise not to reinvest several figures opposed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon ignited the powder. These include Danielle Simonnet, Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière.
FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE CANDIDATE IN CORRÈZE. The former President of the Republic announced yesterday that he was running in the constituency of Tulle under the banner of the New Popular Front, a return to political life which took the Socialist Party by surprise.
GOVERNMENT MEASURES FOR PURCHASING POWER. Gabriel Attal announced yesterday evening in view of the legislative elections measures confirming a reduction in electricity bills of 15%, a reduction in the price of school supplies thanks to “group purchases” and the establishment of a complementary “public” health “at 1 euro per day.
GOOD MORNING
Welcome to this live dedicated to the early legislative elections. Find here the latest information and strong images of political news.
Several hundred thousand opponents of the far right marched across France on Saturday, at the call of unions, associations and the New Popular Front. Across the country, 640,000 people demonstrated, including 250,000 in Paris, according to the CGT union. The authorities, for their part, counted 250,000 people in France, including 75,000 people in the capital.
The left-wing leaders marched in the lead in Paris. Without a word on the deep differences which are shaking the New Popular Front, after the decision of La France Insoumise not to reinvest several figures opposed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Danielle Simonnet, Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière – historical figures of the movement opposed to the Mélenchonist line – were brutally dismissed, replaced by candidates unknown to the general public. “A purge”denounced the first, the second accusing Jean-Luc Mélenchon of “settle accounts”.
“Lifetime nominations do not exist” within our movement, lashed out at the tribune in 20 Minutes, also calling into question their “loyalty”. In the meantime, Olivier Faure assured that he wanted “settle the scandalous eviction” of these deputies, without further details.
Another potential subject of discord within the New Popular Front, the former socialist president François Hollande, favorable to the union of the left against the extreme right, announced his candidacy for the legislative elections in Corrèze.
In the countryside after the “astonishment” of the dissolution, Gabriel Attal, for his part, revealed the first measures of the majority’s program, in the event of victory. With a leitmotif: strengthening the purchasing power of middle-class French people. At 8 p.m. on France 2, he castigated the projects “unrealistic and unachievable” of the National Rally and the New Popular Front which would lead the country to “economic ruin”.
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