dissident candidates on the left, atypical profiles and parity in the hemicycle… Campaign newspaper for Tuesday, May 31

Tuesday, May 31, 12 days before the first round of the legislative elections, heavyweights of the left appear alongside dissident candidates. On the evening of Monday May 30 in Donzenac, in Corrèze, François Hollande and his former Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, notably came to support Annick Taisse, a dissident candidate on the left who is running against the candidate invested by Nupes. On the island of Reunion, seven deputies are in the race. Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon had come out on top in the first and second rounds of the presidential election. “The whole issue will be to see if the voters will vote in the legislative elections as in the presidential election”reports the journalist Christelle Méral, present on the spot.

Among the candidates, there are sometimes a few atypical profiles. The humorist Laurent Baffie is thus a candidate in Paris for the animalist party, the specialist in telephone pranks Gérald Dahan is a candidate for Nupes in Saintes (Charente-Maritime) and a former winner of Koh Lanta is running in Ain, near 20 years after winning the game show, under the majority label. As for parity, is it on the right track on the benches of the hemicycle? “We are progressing, but we are not there yet”assures journalist Caroline Motte, present on the set of 12/13, who specifies that “the share of women in the hemicycle increases every year”. In 2017, 224 women were elected MPs, a record. However, no woman has yet been President of the National Assembly.