Ask for the program. The second round of legislative elections will take place on the weekend of Saturday June 18 and Sunday June 19 in 572 French constituencies. The first to go to the polls will be voters on the American continent on Saturday, both among French people living abroad and in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique and Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et. -Miquelon. The others are expected at their polling station on Sunday. Here is what the configuration of these posters is.
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More than 1,000 candidates still in the running
They were 6,293 on the starting line last Sunday; there are only 1,148 candidates still in the running for the second round, including 655 men and 493 women. Among the contenders, there is about a third of outgoing deputies (370).
The candidates of the outgoing majority (LREM, Modem, Horizons and Agir) are the most numerous (415), ahead of the left alliance Nupes (380), not to mention three socialist dissidents who refused to join this coalition. As for the National Rally, it aligns 209 candidates in the second round, and Les Républicains 71 (in addition to five UDI and 14 various right).
270 duels between Together! and Nupes
In the second round, the most frequent duels will oppose an Ensemble candidate! to a rival of the Nupes. According to an AFP count based on figures from the Interior Ministry, the outgoing majority and the left-wing alliance will clash in 270 out of 577 constituencies.
Together ! will face the RN in 108 of them. The question of the barrage on the far right will also arise in the 62 constituencies where Marine Le Pen’s party will face Nupes. There will be 25 duels between the RN and Les Républicains. The latter will face Nupes in 24 constituencies and Together in 18.
Seven triangular
There will be seven triangles in the second round, compared to only one five years ago. This configuration is rare, due to abstention, because the candidate who came third had to obtain a number of votes at least equal to 12.5% of those registered.
Four constituencies will pit a candidate from Together!, from the left and from the RN, in Dordogne, in Lot-et-Garonne, in Nièvre and in Tarn. In two constituencies of Hauts-de-Seine, the triangular will oppose LR to Nupes and Together!. Finally, in the Lot, there will be a dissident PS candidate against Nupes and Together!. An eighth triangular was planned in Lot-et-Garonne, but Nupes candidate Maryse Combres strictly applied the Republican front and withdrew to make way for a duel between Together! and the RN.
Three finalists already guaranteed to win
As curious as it may seem, some candidates will not have an opponent, because their rivals, qualified for the second round but too far behind, have finally chosen to throw in the towel. Three Nupes candidates thus find themselves alone in the running and therefore guaranteed to win: Clémentine Autain (Seine-St-Denis), Soumya Bourouaha (Seine-St-Denis) and Elie Califer (Guadeloupe).
Five constituencies without a second round
Five candidates were elected in the first round, four for Nupes and one for the outgoing presidential majority. The four left-wing deputies who will not need to cross swords next Sunday are all based in Ile-de-France: they are “rebellious” outgoing from Seine-Saint-Denis, Alexis Corbière, and from Paris, Danièle Obono, as well as two new Parisian LFI deputies, Sophia Chikirou and Sarah Legrain.
For his part, Yannick Favennec-Bécot (64), ex-UDI passed to Horizons, managed to be re-elected for a fifth term in Mayenne with 57.13% of the vote.