This charter commits the candidates to respect various rules for their legislative campaign and their future mandate.
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Exemplarity, secularism, “political excess” and support for Emmanuel Macron … The candidates for the presidential majority in the June legislative elections must sign a charter of 12 commitments on Thursday May 12. Concretely, the nomination of the candidates is conditioned to the attachment in the prefecture to the political box “Together!”, of the name of the confederation of the presidential majority, but also to the signature of this charter.
This is based on “ethics and the pursuit of moralization in public life”with for example provisions on the occupation of social housing, the candidates being invited to leave it “as soon as possible” if they no longer meet the eligibility criteria. On the front of secularism, the candidates must defend a secularism “within the strict framework of the law of December 9, 1905” : “no belief or religion can be privileged or discriminated against”is it written.
On the shutter “method” Politics, “candidates undertake not to be the candidate of a political camp but to represent all the citizens of their constituency”. The ecological commitment is also there, since the candidates must commit “to integrate the challenges of ecological transition in a transversal way in all their reflections, and to work for the respect of the Paris agreements”.
All are also invited to support “all of the commitments made by Emmanuel Macron to the French men and women in the context of the two rounds of the presidential election”. In 2017, 314 deputies had been elected under the LREM label before departures and defectors brought this figure down to 267 at the end of the legislature. For the time being, the majority has filled 548 constituencies out of the 577, and should ultimately give up presenting candidates in around fifteen territories.