Alexandre Chaveau, edited by Wassila Belhacine 06:33, June 03, 2022

Where are the Republicans?

Just over a week before the first round of the legislative elections, the party is carrying out a discreet campaign at the national level and is concentrating its efforts on local issues.

If the stated objective of being the first opposition force in the Assembly has little chance of succeeding, LR wants to believe in its chances and puts forward several reasons for hope.

If Christian Jacob multiplies the trips, the campaign of the Republicans is struggling to find an echo on a national scale.

But the absence of a state of grace for Emmanuel Macron, as well as the recent controversies at the start of his second five-year term, over Jérôme Peyrat, Damien Abad or the Stade de France could play in favor of LR for the legislative elections.

"On the markets, nobody believes in the fable of Darmanin", confides a candidate.

LR is thus betting in part on a return of its voters who voted in favor of the current head of state, and who would have been cooled by the various signals sent by Emmanuel Macron to the left: his statements and movements during the inter -two rounds to seduce the electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (in Saint-Denis then Marseille) then the appointment of Elisabeth Borne at Matignon, as well as that of Pap Ndiaye at National Education in particular.

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A difficult election to predict

On the ground, the candidates struggle: towing, public meetings, door-to-door.

"I saw 15,000 people in 3 months", boasts one of them, from the south-west, who hopes that the divisions of the left in the region will allow him to qualify in the second round and win.

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And despite the slap received in the presidential election, the reception of the French remains rather good according to several candidates, many of whom have nevertheless discarded the LR label.

"I campaign alone," says an outgoing, who does not risk any predictions.

The level of abstention and the mobilization of the electorates of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen are the main variables of an election which seems, for the right, difficult to predict.