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Jean-Yves Camus: "For the RN, the curse of the majority vote disappears"

6/20/2022, 6:53:17 PM


INTERVIEW – The intellectual analyzes the surprise election of 89 deputies from Marine Le Pen's party in Sunday's legislative elections.

Associate researcher at Iris, Jean-Yves Camus directs the Observatory of Political Radicalities of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (think-tank).

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  • Find all the results of the legislative elections

LE FIGARO.

- The RN has achieved an unexpected breakthrough and could be the first opposition group in the Assembly.

A historic victory for him?

JEAN-YVES CAMUS

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Undoubtedly yes, and not only because of the number of seats acquired.

It is a kind of curse that disappears, that of the uninominal majority ballot which left the RN a parliamentary representation out of proportion with its weight in the presidential election and the number of votes garnered in the legislative elections.

However, and Marine Le Pen is aware of this, it is a victory that requires excellence and efficiency in parliamentary work, essential to give credibility to the image of a party that is still often seen as ill-equipped to exercise power.

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