Who will be the next overseas deputies to be heard in the National Assembly?

The French overseas are invited this Saturday, one day before those of the Hexagon, to make their choice in the ballot boxes for the first round of the legislative elections.

Silence, we vote, again.

After the end of the campaign on Friday at midnight, more than 48 million French people are again called to the polls this weekend and the following one to elect their deputies.

A ballot for which Emmanuel Macron is aiming for a majority against a united left with renewed ambitions, six weeks after his re-election at the Elysée.

Polynesia has already voted

In French Polynesia and in the eleven constituencies of French people living abroad, the first round has already taken place on June 4 and 5.

It led to the resounding elimination of former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the emergence of ten duels which will pit the presidential majority against the left-wing coalition, the Nupes (New Popular and Ecological Union), in the second round.

Now make way for the rest of the Overseas Territories with, in the order of the opening of the polling stations according to the time difference, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Guyana, the West Indies, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, Reunion and Mayotte, before the metropolis on Sunday at 8 a.m.

The specter of abstention

If the ballot is different, the three candidates who came first in the presidential election redo the match in the legislative elections, with the winner Emmanuel Macron who indirectly faces the finalist RN Marine Le Pen and the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who came third on April 24.

While the Macron-Le Pen duel had punctuated the presidential election, the rivalry this time took hold between the camp of the head of state and the left-wing alliance formed around Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI-PS-EELV -PCF), which the polls give neck and neck, with abstention as a referee.

It could reach, at the end of a campaign passed largely under the radar, new records, between 52 and 56%, beyond the 51.3% of June 11, 2017.

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

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