The Council of State rejected the Republicans’ request to participate in the debate on TF1, Tuesday June 25. After being rejected by Arcom, LR announced that it had referred the matter to the Council of State to be invited to debate on the channel with Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard, five days before the early legislative elections. The right believes “highly damaging” that this debate takes place only in the presence of representatives of the presidential camp, the National Rally and the New Popular Front. Follow our live stream.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes a stand. In a column published by the magazine Challengesthe former Minister of the Economy is worried about the possible arrival of the National Rally in power, “a homogeneous coalition of true totalitarians, whose DNA is fundamentally xenophobic and anti-Semitic”. The former head of the International Monetary Fund also criticizes “the unbearable excesses, the indefensible positions or the contemptible declarations of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”but assures that he will vote for La France insoumise in the event of a duel with the RN in the second round of the legislative elections. “You have to know how to choose your best enemy to avoid the worst”he justifies.
200 personalities call for an agreement to withdraw from the RN. Some 200 socialist, environmentalist and macronist personalities call, in a column published by The world Tuesday, the right, the center and the left to “display clearly now” that they will put in place a withdrawal agreement between the two rounds of the legislative elections against the National Rally.
A record number of proxies. One week before the first round of the early legislative elections, the Ministry of the Interior counted 1,377,105 proxies established since June 10, according to a report taken on Sunday, seven days before the first round. This represents almost six times more proxies than for the 2022 legislative elections.
Has Emmanuel Macron “lost his footing”? Questioned in the “4 Truths”, Xavier Bertrand assured that Emmanuel Macron had “lost footing” and that he was “responsible for the situation”. According to the president of the Hauts-de-France region, this is not in “scaring the French that it will make any difference to the anger in the country.” He thus reacted to the words of the president who promised “civil war” in the event of victory “extreme” to the legislative elections.
First confrontation of the ballot. Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard will debate on the TF1 set Tuesday evening from 9 p.m. The Prime Minister, the president of the National Rally and the coordinator of La France insoumise have a meeting, while the far right is leading the polls five days before the first round of legislative elections, with 36% of voting intentions according to the ‘Ifop.