What does the elections in 2024 mean?

Sarah Calamand looks back on the big news of 2023 and those that will mark 2024 on which the listeners of “What does it say?” have written. Friday January 5, the European and American electoral meetings.

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2024 will be an election year for us Europeans, but also in the United States, which will elect (or re-elect) its president.

The European elections concern the European Parliament, which sits in Strasbourg. On June 9, the French will elect French European deputies, numbering 81 in 2024. The voting rules are the same as for other elections in France, but it is a ballot by list and the score of each party determines the number of people on the list who are elected, with a minimum of 5% mandatory to obtain a first seat.

MEPs are then divided into groups according to their ideas. The European Parliament contains, for example, the Renew group, to which the Renaissance or Modem MEPs belong, the Left in Parliament group, where the LFI MEPs meet, or even Identity and Democracy, the group of National Rally deputies.

In 2019, the RN won the European elections and according to a poll dating from December 2023, Marine le Pen’s party is at the top of voting intentions. Opposite, La France insoumise is trying to revive Nupes to present a common list.

🔴 Manuel Bompard wants an emergency meeting of the Nupes ➡️ “More than ever, we must ask the question” of a common list for Europeans, says Mathilde Panot. “We are ready to propose the head of the list to the Environmentalists.” #8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/XVeVqPOoSH

— franceinfo (@franceinfo) December 20, 2023

In the United States, do we take the same ones and start again?

The American presidential election will take place in November, and everything suggests that it will be the occasion for a new duel between outgoing President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

But, in theory, nothing is decided before the primaries of the Democratic and Republican parties. Even if, as a listener of “What does it say?” points out, things are complicated for Donald Trump, declared ineligible in Colorado and Maine. The former president, according to these two states, participated in a rebellion on January 6, 2021, when his supporters invaded the Capitol in Washington.

The predominantly conservative Federal Supreme Court has yet to determine whether Donald Trump benefits from immunity, as he was still president at the time.

On the Joe Biden side, everything is not rosy either, since the current president only benefits from 40% favorable opinions. Voters are particularly concerned about his age – 81, a White House record – but also criticize him for not doing more to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

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