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In the spotlight: nothing is decided four days before the legislative elections

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Who will be the future deputies elected in the legislative elections in June 2022?

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Who will get the best score next Sunday?

“ 

Head to neck in voting intentions,

notes

Le Monde, the presidential majority and Nupes, the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, are racing in the lead in a context of very strong abstention.

 »

According to a survey published by the evening daily, “ 

voting intentions in favor of the Nupes candidates amount to 27.5%.

Candidates from the presidential majority collect 28% of voting intentions.

Finally, if we add the estimated scores of the far-right candidates, we arrive at a total of 25.5%.

These three families therefore represent more than 80% of the voting intentions.

 »

Another lesson from this survey: “ 

with a participation index between 44 and 48%, the June 12 ballot seems to be heading towards a record abstention.

 »

The threat of an abstention record

 ", headlines

L'Union.

“ 

Abstention is bad for democratic health,

points out the Reims daily,

and also harmful for the candidates.

Announced massive in the first round, it could cause a slaughter among the contenders and benefit the majority, except when it leaves divided.

 »

Two possibilities: the majority for the presidential camp or not…

For political scientist Jérôme Jaffré, interviewed by

Le Figaro,

The game is very open.

The president can obtain an absolute majority (289 deputies), which would allow him to apply his program.

However, public opinion is already very critical of the executive power, whether it be Emmanuel Macron or Élisabeth Borne.

This unpopularity of power from the re-election of the president is a totally new fact in a post-presidential period.

The idea that prevails in public opinion,

points out the political scientist,

is not to support the Head of State, but rather to strengthen the various oppositions in the Assembly to force him to come to terms with them. .

 »

In addition, continues Jérôme Jaffré, “ 

the French are a majority who do not want Jean-Luc Mélenchon at Matignon.

The fear of the victory of the Insoumis can therefore be the spring of a jump in favor of the Together candidates, especially in the second round.

Two possibilities then seem the most likely.

Either the Macronist candidates obtain the majority, or no coalition obtains it, which would be almost a first since 1962

 ”.

For or against Mélenchon?

In any case, for or against Mélenchon: the debate is raging in the newspapers... " 

Taxes, expenses... Mélenchon's disturbing project

 ", headlines

Le Figaro

on the front page.

For the right-wing daily, " 

the measures of the Nupes would lead to an explosion of debt, taxation and deficits, and would cause an economic slowdown which would affect the most fragile French people

 ".

In short, asserts

Le Figaro

, with Mélenchon and "

his museum of economic horrors

", we would go "

straight into the wall

 ".

No, exclaims

L'Humanité.

All of this is false.

L'Humanité

, which denounces, says the newspaper, "

 the lies about Nupes

": "

Macronie, big business and liberal institutes promise a financial catastrophe in the event of a victory for the left in the legislative elections, even if it means creating dangers by telling anything

 ," says the Communist daily.

More thermal cars in 2035?

Also on the front page, the programmed end of fossil-fuel cars... "

Petrol, diesel, hybrid: hitchhiking

," launches

Liberation

on the front page.

Indeed, specifies the newspaper, "

the European parliament is preparing to vote this Wednesday the ban on the sale of thermal vehicles in 2035. A revolution for the automotive sector, which is struggling to anticipate this shift

 ".

Libé

's comment

: “

it is the car that will have to adapt to the city and the planet, or at least that is what the most progressive European countries want.

If Germany is finally in favor of an alignment with the European Commission, the countries whose car manufacturers are the least prepared for the big electric shift remain for the moment very silent on their intention to vote - Spain, the Italy, and France of course, where the lobbies have not said their last word

 ”.

Still, the electric car is not a panacea… “

Many issues still need to be resolved to meet future needs

,” acknowledges

Liberation.

Raw materials, charging stations, management of used batteries… The sector still faces many challenges

 ”.

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