“This campaign is short, less than three weeks, and yet we already have 51 candidates, substitutes or activists who have been physically attacked”explained Gérald Darmanin, Friday July 5 on BFMTV. This announcement by the Minister of the Interior comes less than forty-eight hours after the attack on government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot and her team during a poster-posting event in Meudon. The former mayor of Tourcoing added that a “Thirty arrests have already taken place”specifying that the profile of the attackers is “very various”. Follow our live.
Last day of campaigning, candidates are increasing calls for mobilization. A few hours before the silence: at midnight, Friday July 5, the legislative campaign will officially end, with political leaders taking advantage of this last official day to multiply their speeches before holding their breath in the face of a historic vote. On Thursday evening, several representatives of the major political parties were interviewed on the set of the program “L’Evénement”.
A relative majority for the National Rally in the National Assembly, according to a poll. The party ofThe far right would obtain between 210 and 240 deputies, a spectacular progression compared to the 88 outgoing RN deputies, but insufficient to reach an absolute majority alone (289 deputies), according to an Ifop poll published Thursday for LCI, Le Figaro and Sud Radio. The same poll sees the New Popular Front second with 170 to 200 deputies, ahead of the presidential camp (between 95 and 125 deputies).
Only “four or five” RN candidates in the legislative elections are problematic, believes Jordan Bardella. Guest on the show “L’Evénement” on France 2, Thursday evening, the president of the far-right party explained that “in all organizations there can be casting errors”.
For Marine Le Pen, the RN “does not pose any danger, except to lose power” to Emmanuel Macron. Two days before the second round of early legislative elections, Marine Le Pen was interviewed by the American channel CNN. She also judges “paradoxical” that the head of state has “proceeded with the dissolution by indicating that the people must once again have their say” but now “withdraws its candidates to vote for the extreme left”.