Legislative: the campaign ends, the macronists without certainty

Europe 1 with AFP 6:21 p.m., June 10, 2022

The campaign for the first round of the legislative elections ends Friday evening with a macronie confronted with the rediscovered ambitions of the left and the controversy which rebounds from the incidents at the Stade de France.

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, candidate in Calvados, towed one last time on the Vire market and in Verson before the vote on Sunday in mainland France.

She was again questioned by the press about the fiasco surrounding the Champions League final on May 28, due to the controversial deletion of CCTV images from cameras managed by the Stade de France.

"We are trying to see if it is possible to restore the images. It would certainly be a good thing if we could recover them," she said.

She also instructed the Ministers of the Interior and Sports to "implement without delay" the recommendations of a critical report published on Friday.

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The opposition attacks Darmanin and Dupont-Moretti

The opposition pounded ministers Gérald Darmanin and Eric Dupond-Moretti on Friday, accusing them of failing to ensure that all footage would be kept.

"It's called covering your tracks," denounced the former RN presidential finalist Marine Le Pen, RN candidate in Pas-de-Calais.

"I dare not imagine that our leaders are incompetent to the point of not having immediately (...) asked that the video surveillance be transmitted to them. So it is voluntary" and "it is a destruction of evidence by inaction" , accused the far-right leader on BFMTV and RMC.

For the leader of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau, "we are heading straight for a state scandal", with an "intentional act" to "make evidence disappear, which is undoubtedly evidence for the prosecution", a- he launched on RFI.

Six weeks after the presidential election in April, the three candidates who came out on top find themselves in the legislative elections, with the winner Emmanuel Macron who indirectly faces the RN Marine Le Pen and the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The Macron and Mélenchon camps neck and neck

But this time, the duel has settled between Emmanuel Macron's camp and the left-wing alliance formed around Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI-PS-EELV-PCF), which the polls give neck and neck. elbow, with abstention as referee.

It could reach a new record, between 52 and 56%, beyond the 51.3% of June 11, 2017. According to the latest polls, the presidential coalition would come out on top, followed closely by the left-wing Nupes alliance, and could only have a relative majority.

Then comes the RN, then far behind the right of the Republicans and Reconquest!, the far-right formation led by Eric Zemmour.

Further reinforced by a breakthrough in the vote of French people living abroad, Jean-Luc Mélenchon keeps repeating that he intends to make the legislative "a third round", hoping to be "Prime Minister" in the event of a majority of the Nupes .

For Emmanuel Macron, who made four trips during the campaign, the challenge is to renew a "strong and clear" majority in the National Assembly, as he reiterated Thursday in the Tarn, in order to carry out its program during its second five-year term.

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Macron poses as a bulwark against "the extremes"

For the time being, Emmanuel Macron has chosen to pose, as during the presidential election, as a bulwark against "the extremes", sending the radical left and the far right back to back.

Emmanuel Macron has not planned to travel for this last day of the campaign, but received the representatives of the trade union organizations for a working lunch at the Elysée Palace, without the general secretary of the CGT Philippe Martinez who declined the invitation.

The union leaders present said they were "reassured" at the end of the meeting, in particular on the consultation on the decried pension reform which should not begin before the start of the school year.

Including Elisabeth Borne, fifteen members of the government are in the running for the legislative elections and will have to leave the executive in the event of defeat in accordance with a rule already applied in 2017 by President Emmanuel Macron.

Having fun with the "febrility" of the presidential camp, Jean-Luc Mélenchon holds his final campaign speech in Marseilles, in the 4th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône, at the end of the afternoon, for a handover with his director. campaign, Manuel Bompard who presents himself there.

Nearly 6,300 candidates are in the running for 577 seats, or 20% less than in 2017, due in particular to the agreement on the left.