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Women, the great forgotten in the race for the legislative elections: this is the observation made by the infographics of Le Monde and France Info this Friday, June 28, 2024.
In their haste to present deputies as candidates for the 577 seats that the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024 will have put into play, the various parties will have omitted a crucial point: parity. Le Monde and France Info shared the results of their respective surveys and infographics this Friday, June 28, 2024. And the results are not rosy.
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Three weeks separated the parties, including Renaissance, the New Popular Front and the National Rally, from the first round announced for June 30, 2024. Three weeks during which only 42.3% of women will have been subject to investitures even though the law of August 4, 2014 imposes parity under penalty of a fine.
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Winning the prize for the worst student in terms of parity, the group of Republicans allied to the RN in the wake of Eric Sciotti: there are 11 women compared to 52 men. The Republicans themselves only have a third of their candidates. The Renaissance party is getting closer to parity but without achieving it with 43.5% of female candidates.
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For its part, La France Insoumise presented 116 female nominations against 117 male nominations according to the infographic from France Info. The party is thus the only one to achieve almost parity. The Socialist Party and the Ecologists-EELV, also allied with the New Popular Front, invested 45.3% and 46.7% of female candidates. The French Communist Party, which is making progress on its side, finally has 24 women in its ranks for 26 men.
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The territories where the RN triumphed in the European elections are reserved for male candidates, women are left with the rest
Finally, the National Rally stands out in terms of parity with 47.6% of women, but this rate hides a glaring inequality. Indeed, “the trend is reversed” when we study more closely the constituencies in which the latter are invested according to Le Monde. The territories where the RN triumphed during the European elections are in fact automatically returned to two thirds of men, while those where the RN did poorly are abandoned to women. There, they are in excess: 96 women for 56 men.
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The syndrome does not only affect the RN. “All parties combined, 41.4% of them are invested in very unfavorable and unfavorable constituencies,” analyzes Le Monde. Double punishment therefore.
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The condition of women absent from programs
The president of the Women’s Foundation, Anne-Cécile Mailfret, spoke on the morning show of France Inter this Friday, June 28, 2024, about the neglect of the condition of women in the programs of the various parties. “Unsurprisingly, the RN focuses on the repression of foreign rapists while 80% of the rapists denounced are known to the victims and half of the rapists tried come from the family,” she explains.
As for the program of the New Popular Front, it proposes the following measures in the fight against sexism: 2.6 billion against violence against women, a comprehensive “Me too” law, equal pay and reimbursement of hygienic protection . “Good start, but definitely a little sloppy,” she says.
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And to conclude that the short time available to the parties to develop their programs before the legislative elections is partly the cause of this state of affairs. “Emmanuel Macron made the choice not to give us time; in doing so he stole our ability to act in democracy,” she observed, before asking: how, in 21 days, could we apprehend into a political program the very complex problem that constitutes the condition of women, when a whole year would barely be enough?
