The parties launch the battle for the legislative elections
On the left as on the right, the main parties are in battle order, five weeks before the first round.
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Freshly invested for a second term, President Emmanuel Macron addresses the audience this Saturday, May 7 at the Élysée Palace.
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The legislative campaign begins in earnest in France: on the left as on the right, the main parties – except the RN – are placed in battle order on Saturday, five weeks before the first round.
Invested for a second and last five-year term at the end of the morning, Emmanuel Macron made “the oath to bequeath a more livable planet” and “a living and stronger France”, during his speech.
While waiting for the appointment of a new government, the eye of the head of state is already riveted on the legislative elections to come, aiming to elect 577 deputies on June 12 and 19 who will be the extension of the sequence opened by the presidential election.
The challenge for the opposition will be to maintain the mobilization of their voters by convincing them that the revenge of April 24 is possible. For Mr. Macron, it will be to ensure the majority allowing him to apply the program on which he was re-elected.
union of the left
In the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had been a brilliant third, with nearly 22% of the vote. The rest of the left had been swept away.
At the end of a flash tactical offensive, the former candidate of La France Insoumise (LFI) managed this week to unite under the same banner LFI, the PS, the PCF and EELV, responding to the expectation of a great part of the left-wing electorate.
In the wake of a historic agreement with his former socialist enemies, the 71-year-old tribune is meeting on Saturday in Aubervilliers for a nomination convention for the candidates for the legislative elections of his New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) – himself not will not, he said on Friday.
“Here is held the first convention of the Nupes”, “to forget the grudges of the past” and “to regroup to win”, proclaimed Manuel Bompard, the leader of the rebellious negotiators and one of the architects of this alliance. He shared the stage with the ecologist leaders Julien Bayou, socialist Olivier Faure and communist Fabien Roussel who spoke in turn.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon was to deliver the closing speech at 4:30 p.m.
To unveil the Nupes logo, Manon Aubry made the V for victory with her fingers, V in Greek is “NU”, she explained. A green, purple, yellow, orange and red V sign appeared on the screen.
If the agreement on the left has not caused a stir among environmentalists, it is rejected without appeal by several major figures of the PS. Concretely, the powerful president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga, a resolute opponent of the agreement, is moving to the Lot on Saturday in support of a dissident candidate.
Don’t call it LREM anymore
The presidential party LREM, which will become Renaissance, hopes to be able to attract some of these disappointed on the left. “Our doors are wide open,” insisted his boss, Stanislas Guerini, on Friday.
The outgoing majority had unveiled Thursday a first salvo of 187 investitures – including a dozen ministers and the former head of government PS Manuel Valls, present at the Elysee Palace on Saturday. The poster must be completed on Saturday by the announcement of a new wave of nominations.
After tense negotiations, La République en Marche (LREM), François Bayrou’s MoDem and Edouard Philippe’s new Horizons party are tackling the legislative elections “Together!” – this is the name chosen for their joint campaign.
On the right, Les Républicains gathered their National Council in Paris to officially launch their campaign which promises to be perilous for the historic right-wing party, whose candidate Valérie Pécresse was defeated in the presidential election (4.8% of the vote).
For the leader of the party Christian Jacob, it is a question of deterring any temptation to rally to Mr. Macron, while several elected officials, including the boss of the deputies Damien Abad, have shown themselves open to a rally.
Finally, Eric Zemmour brings together the candidates for the legislative elections of his party Reconquête! in Paris, Salle Wagram, for a day of training which he will conclude with a speech. The ex-candidate of the extreme right did not have a favorable response to his outstretched hand to the National Rally and to LR. It invests 550 candidates. Will it be? He says he is “very tempted”.
The RN of Marine Le Pen will wait for its part next week to present the axes of its campaign.
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