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  • The official campaign for the legislative elections starts on Monday.

    On June 12 and 19, the French men and women will elect the 577 deputies of the National Assembly.

    Elections for which nearly 6,300 candidates are in the running and Elisabeth Borne, new Prime Minister, remains a candidate in Calvados.

  • While Emmanuel Macron has so far been rather in the background, Elisabeth Borne will get involved as majority leader: Monday at the end of the day, she will be in video with all the candidates Together!, then will have a working meeting with the key players in the campaign.

  • According to several polls, the presidential majority and the Nupes would be neck and neck in voice (26-28%), ahead of the RN (21-23%), LR (9%-11%) and Reconquest!

    of Eric Zemmour (5-6%).

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8:41 am: On the agenda this week

Everyone is throwing their forces into battle: LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be at a meeting on Wednesday in Paris with the Nupes alliance on the left, and Marine Le Pen (RN) in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais) on Sunday.

They will roll out their proposals in the face of soaring prices, which have become the number one concern.

While Emmanuel Macron has so far been rather in the background, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will get involved as majority leader: Monday at the end of the day, she will be in video with all the candidates Together!, then will have a meeting of work with the main actors of the campaign.

8:29 am: Fourteen ministers on the grill

Fourteen current ministers – Gérald Darmanin, Gabriel Attal…- and several outgoing ones, including Jean-Michel Blanquer, are embarking on these legislative elections, as well as the first of them, Elisabeth Borne, in the running in Calvados.

With a sword of Damocles: they will have to resign in case of failure.


8:27 a.m .: The polls point

According to several polls, the presidential majority and the Nupes would be neck and neck in voice (26-28%), ahead of the RN (21-23%), LR (9%-11%) and Reconquest!

of Eric Zemmour (5-6%). 

But due to the voting method and the geographical concentration of LFI scores, the presidential camp and its pillars LREM, MoDem and Horizons would keep a majority of 290 to 330 seats, even if this tends to narrow over the weeks, brushing the threshold of an absolute majority (289).

The Nupes would have 160 to 195 seats, the RN between 20 and 65. LR would see its parliamentary group of a hundred deputies melt between 20 and 65 seats.

8:20 am: Let's go for the official campaign

It's the return of the billboards, and the time to work hard for the candidates: the official campaign for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 starts Monday, between macronists who expect a victory and opposition rows behind the banner of purchasing power.

8:15 a.m .: Come on, as usual, we take stock of the legislative agenda

Deadline for submitting applications?

Candidates could submit a duplicate copy of their declaration of candidacy to the prefecture until May 20, at 6 p.m.

A similar declaration had to be completed for the substitute, who is the person who would be called upon to succeed him in the event of a vacancy in the seat.

To be able to access the second round, it is necessary to have gathered at least 12.5% ​​of the voters registered during the first round.

Applications must be submitted to the prefecture before Tuesday, June 14, at 6 p.m.

The date of the opening of the official campaign?

It is the second Monday before the date of the poll, today May 30 for the first round.

In metropolitan France, it will end on Friday June 10, at midnight.

The date of the first round for French people living abroad and in Polynesia?

French people living abroad on the American continent, as well as those from the Caribbean, will go to the voting booth on Saturday June 4.

For other French nationals abroad, as well as for residents of French Polynesia, the first round will take place on Sunday, June 5, according to the site of French diplomacy.

The dates of the two rounds?

Nearly 48 million French people will be called to the polls on Sunday June 12 for the first round of legislative elections and on Sunday June 19 for the second round.

Some overseas territories will vote the day before the first and second rounds, on June 11 and 18.

The start date of the new legislature in the National Assembly?

The National Assembly will take office on June 22.

On Tuesday June 28, the new deputies will begin to sit in the hemicycle.

They will then elect the President of the National Assembly, who will succeed Richard Ferrand.

And it is only on June 29 that the composition of the eight permanent committees and the office of the National Assembly will be known.

Hello and welcome to this new live from the editorial staff of 20 Minutes devoted to political events in 2022. On the program: all the news on the negotiations between the parties as the legislative elections approach, the declared candidates, the programs, the little well-felt tackles (or not) and the first steps of Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister.

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