There were more than 4,000 candidates before the first round of the legislative elections. There are still a little more than 1,100, on Wednesday, July 3. They had until Tuesday 6 p.m. to submit their candidacy to the prefecture for the second round, in order to try to join the 76 deputies already elected. These withdrawals have drastically reduced the number of triangular races: a little less than a hundred, compared to 311 possible at the exit of the polls on June 30. In the presidential camp as in that of the New Popular Front, the last 48 hours have been devoted to the thorny question of withdrawals. Follow our live feed.
Without an absolute majority in the National Assembly, Emmanuel Macron will have to “resign”, says Louis Aliot. “If there is no majority, if it is ungovernable, after a few months”Emmanuel Macron “will be forced to draw the consequences”underlines the first vice-president of the National Rally (RN) and mayor of Perpignan, on franceinfo.
François Hollande welcomes the “reformation of the republican front”. On the set of France 2’s “20 heures” on Tuesday evening, the former President of the Republic, who is facing the RN and the right in Corrèze, also promised that the left will be “rebalanced” at the end of the vote, to the detriment of the Insoumis. A left which must “change behavior” For “appear as the solution, not as a barrier”.
Marine Tondelier does not close the door to the idea of a grand coalition. “We will probably have to do things that no one has ever done before in this country.”said the head of the Ecologists during an interview with the TF1 news, rejecting the idea of a new “Macronist Prime Minister”.
New debate between Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella and Marine Tondelier. The three political leaders will speak on Wednesday evening, in turn on BFMTV, which had to acknowledge “the impossibility of mounting a debate”The RN demanded, in vain, that the New Popular Front be represented by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and not by the national secretary of the Ecologists.