They are 6,293 candidates to lead the battle to win one of the 577 posts of deputies: the electoral campaign has just entered its final stretch but seems to leave voters indifferent. The participation rate looks particularly low next Sunday. Must there be proof that deputies have no power? Le Quart d’Heure plunges into a campaign where the stakes are more numerous than it seems.
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The news of this three-day weekend was particularly busy: storms hit France, the British celebrated their queen, Normandy paid tribute to the fighters of June 6, 1944, Rafael Nadal (again) won Roland -Garros… and in all this, who talked about the legislative elections? However, this weekend marked the last high point of the campaign with tracts, meetings and first results: the French people living abroad have already voted and the former socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who was running in the constituency which includes the ‘Spain and Portugal, was eliminated in the first round.
“The Assembly has been devitalized”
The French seem little interested in this campaign, “which is a non-object” according to Brice Teinturier, Deputy Director of Ipsos. The participation rate looks particularly low. I have to say that “during Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term, power was at the Elysée and the National Assembly was particularly devitalized” notes Hadrien Bect, journalist in the political service of franceinfo. But the National Assembly remains with the Senate a major democratic body “whose mission is to make the law and control the Government”. We come back in the Quarter Hour to the multiple challenges of this largely underestimated campaign.