France launches parliamentary election campaign

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Citizens are recalled to the polls to renew the 577 National Assembly seats

The election campaign for the parliamentary elections of 12 and 19 June officially started this Monday in France. Two months after the election of a president, the French are again called to the polls to renew the 577 seats of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament.

French voters will also have to decide whether to give French President Emmanuel Macron’s party, re-elected on April 24 to a second term, a parliamentary majority in the hemisphere, as happened in 2017. These elections will be marked by the emergence of three major blocs in the National Assembly: the party of Macron and its allies, the left-wing party union and the far right, which are going to these elections divided.

Among the 6,293 candidates running for the parliamentary elections this year, there are many familiar faces. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, and 15 of her ministers and secretaries of state will seek to be elected as deputies for their respective constituencies. The head of the Executive and her ministers have a lot at stake when they present themselves. If one of them does not win the seat, he will have to resign because he does not get the support of the polls.

Among the ministers presenting themselves for the parliamentary elections, Gérald Darmanin (Internal Affairs) and Damien Abad (Solidarities) stand out. The latter has been accused of rape by two women, but has not resigned.

The elections, like the presidential elections, are held in two rounds. Voters must choose who their deputy will be for the next five years in each constituency. Each seat corresponds to a constituency

To be elected in the first round, a majority of the valid votes (50%) must be obtained and the votes obtained must represent 25% of that constituency’s voter count, which includes both eligible and abstained voters. If no candidate crosses that threshold, a runoff is held between the candidates who obtained at least 12.5% ​​of the census votes in that constituency. Unlike the presidential election, where only the top two most elected candidates advance to the second round, parliamentary elections can have more than two finalists. The seat is won by the candidate with the most votes in the second round.

According to the latest Harris Interactive poll, if parliamentary elections were to be held today, Macron’s party and its allies would win outright winning between 295 and 345 seats, compared to the current 346. The left-wing union would win 68 seats. seats go to 100.

Marine Le Pen’s party would take a big leap and win between 42 and 68 seats. Currently, this far-right party has only six deputies, as the rest of the parties usually meet in the second round to defeat the ultra-candidate. And the moderate right (the Republicans and the UDI) would go from 120 delegates to just 32 to 52 seats.

Source: La Verdad

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