What lessons can be learned from the six partial legislative elections?

Mathieu Gallard is director of studies at Ipsos France.

This Sunday, September 20, six partial legislative elections were held, following the resignation of outgoing deputies elected mayors in municipal elections or entered the government after the appointment of Jean Castex in Matignon.

The low turnout should make one cautious about the interpretation of the results, but several lessons are emerging nonetheless, confirming or even amplifying the lessons of the spring municipal elections.

● The devalued National Assembly

The first lesson to be drawn from these elections is institutional rather than electoral.

While partial legislative elections are generally organized in the event of invalidation of the previous ballot by the Constitutional Council, or of the death of the deputy if his deputy is himself deceased or resigned, the elections of last Sunday were most often caused by the recent election of the outgoing deputy to a town hall and the

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