Tick ​​tock… Candidates have only a few hours left to decide…

It is a department that is rather anchored on the right. It was therefore not very surprising to see the very young Jade Béniguel, a student at Sciences Po, come third in the election in the second constituency of Morbihan. The left-wing candidate withdrew.

Jimmy Pahun, candidate of the presidential majority, came out on top in this first round, collecting 32.1% of the votes, ahead of the RN candidate Florent de Kersauson (30%), brother of the sailor.

There were 155 withdrawals on Monday evening. Who can beat that? While many three-way races are looming, 155 candidates have already announced their withdrawal in order to counter the National Rally. Others could follow this Tuesday, but how many? It’s hard to say, as some outgoing MPs, particularly from the presidential majority, are clinging to the hope of keeping their seats.

Candidates have until 6 p.m. to submit their application to the prefecture. We will know more this evening, then.

She is staying “with the agreement of Gabriel Attal”. Candidate Ensemble in the 14th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, Anne-Laurence Petel came in third place on Sunday evening in a very tight three-way race. “I am in a better position to win,” she declared on Tuesday morning on France Bleu Provence.

Member of Parliament for the constituency since 2017, Anne-Laurence Petel came third in the first round with 28.9% of the vote, compared to 29.5% for the socialist candidate of the New Popular Front, Jean-David Ciot. Gérault Verny (LR-RN) came first with 31.65% of the vote.

But as the candidate points out, her retention is validated by the Prime Minister, disavowing the party’s instructions in the process. But if Gaby said it…

The RN candidate for the Caen constituency (Calvados) is withdrawing from the legislative race. The problem? The publication of a photo of her wearing a Nazi cap that Ludivine Daoudi had posted on her Facebook account. It was her opponent from the left who had taken out the photo to publish it.

According to France Bleu, it was the political office of the far-right party that made the decision to disembark.

Yesterday, she appeared moved to tears when commenting on the remarks of Minister Bruno Le Maire, before sending Jordan Bardella back to his 22 by reminding that she was ready to debate with him. In a quick campaign, the national secretary of the Greens Marine Tondelier is establishing herself as one of the figures of the left, which really needs it.

To understand the hype surrounding the environmentalist, we offer you this excellent article by the emeritus Jean-Loup D.

She made her decision after much thought and intense consultation. Coming in second place on the evening of the first round in the constituency of Landerneau (Finistère), the candidate of the left-wing union Gladys Grelaud is withdrawing. The representative of the New Popular Front is calling for a vote for Graziella Melchior against the National Rally. “This ballot is the only tool at our disposal to beat the National Rally on Sunday.”

The outgoing deputy of the presidential majority came out on top with 30.3% of the vote ahead of the communist candidate Gladys Grelaud (27.2%) and the RN candidate, Renée Thomaïdis (26.5%). There will be only two of them left on Sunday.

The outgoing MP for the 5th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis will not be re-elected. Qualified for the second round, the rejected LFI member Raquel Garrido has withdrawn. Fair play, when you consider that she is stepping aside to make way for the candidate nominated by La France Insoumise in her place, she who had taken over the constituency in 2022. “I am withdrawing. I will do it, unilaterally, all by myself. Because I do not have principles that vary,” Raquel Garrido declared on BFMTV late Monday evening.

The elected official said on Monday that she was “ready” to withdraw on condition that the candidates nominated by LFI against the outgoing rebellious deputies Alexis Corbière and Danielle Simonnet, “purged” like her, also withdraw.

In the first round, Raquel Garrido came third in her constituency with 23.6% of the vote. In the lead, the candidate invested by LFI Aly Diouara received 33.1%, ahead of the mayor of Drancy Aude Lagarde (24.6%).

With 33.15% of the vote, the National Rally and its allies came out on top in the first round, but without the certainty of obtaining an absolute majority on July 7. If this were not the case, the leader of the RN has already indicated that he would refuse Matignon. How can this be explained and should we take his word for it? Read our article on the subject.

It is this Tuesday evening that the list of candidates will be officially known for the second round. “The declarations of candidacy will be filed from the proclamation of the results by the general vote counting commission and until Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 6 p.m.,” specifies the presidential decree of June 9. “The publication of the list of candidates whose candidacy has been definitively registered and their replacements is decided and published by the prefect (…) for the second round, the day after the deadline set for the submission of candidacies.”

Guest on TF1’s news on Monday, Jordan Bardella castigated “an unnatural alliance between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Emmanuel Macron” by mentioning the multiple mutual withdrawals of the candidates of the New Popular Front and Ensemble, when they qualified in third position for the second round, limiting the potential three-way races. “The president comes to the aid of a violent far-left movement, and France Insoumise calls for a vote for Madame Borne. I believe that the French are not fooled by this alliance of dishonor!”, says the president of the RN, who also published a montage on X between the two men.

Sometimes criticized in the past, the polling institutes presented reliable forecasts for the legislative elections, as they had done for the European elections. The RN and its allies, credited with 35 to 37% of voting intentions in the last days of the campaign, finally obtained a little more than 33% of the votes. For the left (28%) as for the presidential camp (20%), the last barometers had been in line with reality, almost to the nearest percentage point.

“The proximity of the European elections has helped us greatly,” explains Vincent Thibault, opinion consulting director at Elabe. “In three weeks, respondents have a precise memory of their previous vote and do not change their minds radically.” Especially since the far-right vote seems less taboo every year. “The de-demonization of the RN and its progression gradually strengthen our ease in understanding this vote,” explains Bruno Jeanbart, vice-president of OpinionWay.

The challenge is much more difficult to meet for Sunday’s vote, due to the many uncertainties between the two rounds. “Our deadlines are very short, we cannot conduct our surveys before Wednesday and we must stop publishing on Friday. Our enemy is time,” admits Bruno Jeanbart.

French national football team defender Jules Koundé called on Monday to “block the far right and the National Rally” during the second round of legislative elections on July 7. “This is not a party that will lead our country towards more freedom and living together,” declared the FC Barcelona player, following the qualification of the Blues for the quarter-finals of Euro 2024.

Strongly mobilized during the first round of the legislative elections, 18-24 year-olds mostly gave their votes to the left, even if the vote in favor of the RN increased, according to specialists. “57% of them made the trip,” underlines Laurent Lardeux, sociologist, researcher at the National Institute of Youth and Popular Education. That is a mobilization up 27 points compared to 2022. According to a survey by Harris Interactive for Challenges, M6 and RTL, 41% of them slipped a ballot for the New Popular Front, 23% for the National Rally, while 13% chose the presidential camp and 8% for the Republicans (LR). Another survey, conducted the day before the election by Ipsos Talan for France Télévisions, Radio France and Public Sénat, found that 48% of 18-24 year-olds voted for the NFP, 33% for the RN and its allies, far ahead of the Macronists (9%) and LR (4%).

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose country has taken over the rotating EU presidency, expressed his “optimism” on Monday after the RN’s score in the first round of the legislative elections. “Things cannot continue like this in Brussels, they have to change. That’s why the Belgian Prime Minister fell, that’s why the French government fell.” “The first source of our optimism is that people want change. But the bureaucrats in Brussels think differently, they don’t want change,” he said in an interview with Hungarian public television.

The LR president of Hauts-de-France demanded on Monday a “republican surge government” as an alternative to an executive in the hands of the RN or to “a backroom coalition”. With this idea, Xavier Bertrand wants to get France “out of the impasse into which Mr. Macron has plunged it”, he explained on TF1. This will be “a provisional government of the Republic as existed at a time when it was necessary to rebuild”.

The leader of the right-wing party Les Républicains, who called for a vote in the second round of the legislative elections for “the hundred” candidates from his party and independents, considered that the task of this government would be “clearly to rebuild our country”.

Hello everyone. In five days, France will once again go to the polls to conclude the cycle of legislative elections. While more than 150 withdrawals have already been announced to counter the RN, this Tuesday will allow us to have a slightly clearer picture of the forces present on July 7 for the second round. The contenders for the Palais Bourbon have until 6 p.m. to submit their candidacy files to the prefecture. While waiting for this important moment of the day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is once again mobilized to give you all the news from the campaign.