Elections in France: the electoral campaign that aims to get people to vote is underway

Surprising result: 25.75 percent for the president and 25.66 percent for the aspiring premier. A true draw in the first round of the French legislative elections between togetherEmmanuel Macron’s party, e Nupethe left alliance of Jean Luc Mélenchon.

Neither the president has obtained an absolute majority nor will Mélenchon be able to be prime minister. But a ferocious campaign has already begun for next Sunday’s runoff, where the main slogan will be going to vote. The 52.48 percent abstention was the queen of the French first round. It is the symbol of a tired democracywith bored voters and eroded institutions.

Elbow to elbow in elections shows for the first time in the Fifth Republic that the presidential coalition does not come out sharply sooner after the presidential election. Today his pension reforms and the refoundation of the country are threatened. Although Mélenchon has not gotten the votes to enforce his gapartist decision to be elected prime minister, when it comes to a decision of the president and not of the voters.

When the first screenings agreed on a minimum advance of one point to NUPES on Ensemble on Sunday evening, the data from the Ministry of the Interior officially placed second NUPES. But on Monday morning, NUPES ensures that “These figures are false.”

“They undoubtedly repress our candidates and consider that the people who support us are not NUPES and they do not count them,” denounced deputy Alexis Corbière, re-elected in the first round of his constituency in St Denis.

According to NUPES, they have succeeded 6.101.968 votes (ie 26.8 percent) and the Ministry of the Interior gives them 5,836,202 votes for appear artificially Macron’s party in the lead, they denounced. They will appeal to the Council of State.

hyperpolarized campaign

Macron payment in this first round a belated campaign, his idea of ​​depoliticizing a tense electorate overwhelmed by the cost of living, with diesel at two euros per liter. It will now have a highly polarized vote and a more than ideologized National Assembly. This scenario will complicate your mandate, the last one for him.

NUPES will be stronger than ever in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen will be better represented than before. Macron will have to lean on conservative Republicans, who will be the arbiter of this ideological cocktail between the far left and the far right.

Macronist ministerial emblems they have their benches threatened in this second round: the deputy and minister for Europe, Clément Beaune and Amelié de Montchalin, in Paris and in the Esson, are in difficulty to face the ballot. Jean Michel Blanquer, former Minister of Education, was eliminated in the first round in the Loiret e now appeal to justice.

It is evident that there was vow of punishment for pure macronia.

Mélenchon, “liar”

Macron was slow to appoint his prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, who managed to win her Calvados constituency and left there on Monday for the campaign. He paid the price for his campaign No and the announcement of his grandiose projects, such as the Council for the Refoundation of the Country, when the voters they had no interest in voting.

Whether it is “on the results of his field” in the legislative elections or on the “program” of the presidential coalition, the leader of the NUPES, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is “above all the first liar”, the premier mocked on Monday from France.

“When Jean-Luc Mélenchon says he wants to be prime minister, he is above all the first liar,” said the head of the government. Per Borne, the leader of the united left, gathered under the banner of Nupes, “lies about the results of his campaign, inflate the figures to make the news at 8 in the morning. “

Mélenchon had in fact stated Sunday evening, at the end of the first round of the legislative elections, that Nupes was “in the lead” and would be “present in more than 500 constituencies in the second round”. It was based on partial projections and resultsthey were changing with the count during the early morning.

The Nupes managed to qualify 385 districts for the second round. In 2017, overshadowed by La République en Marche (LRM), leftist candidates (La France Insumisa, Europe Ecologia-Les Verts, French Communist Party and Socialist Party) were present in only 145 of the 572 ballots.

“Yesterday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon once again showed his worst flaws: when he’s not in the lead, he blames the figures,” insisted Borne. “We can’t let it go,” he insisted again.

The Prime Minister also invited candidates to “finds all gradesto speak to all voters and in particular to left-wing voters, linked to republican values and that they do not recognize themselves in this excessive flight. “He also asked everyone to organize” a public meeting on Wednesday “as part of a national mobilization operation.

Next Sunday there will be 276 duels between Ensemble and Nupes, and 108 between Ensemble and National Regrouping, Marine Le Pen’s match. In 61 constituencies they will have a second round between NUPES and Marine Le Pen.

the united left

Mélenchon now has to play to super mobilization in the ballot. In that 52.49 percent who did not go to vote, can find voters.

According to an Elabe poll for L’Express and SFR, Macron may not get an absolute majority, set at 289 seats and settle for a relative minority, between 260 and 295 seats, after the ballot.

NUPES would be able to get between From 160 to 210 deputies for the National Assembly after the ballot.

The French left managed to recover on Sunday. He achieved what was unthinkable just prior to this campaign: unit.

But the figures seem not to be enough for Jean Luc Mélenchon to end his daring maneuver as an old political fox and put an end to the elections for prime minister. I would only reach it if the mobilization was huge and spectacular. It must get all the young people and the popular classes to vote, who did not vote yesterday and are reluctant to do so. He would need at least 100 more places to get it.

Paris, correspondent

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