Legislative results 2022: where are the outgoing deputies?

The outgoing presidential majority Together!

and the left-wing Nupes alliance are neck and neck on Sunday in the first round of legislative elections with around 25.9% of the vote, according to estimates.

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Significant turnover among outgoing deputies

Of the 567 outgoing deputies, 441 are standing for re-election.

It is therefore 126 elected officials who have decided to hang up, i.e. 20% of the workforce of the National Assembly.

In 2012, already, about 20% of outgoing had decided not to run for a new mandate.

In 2017, this share was even higher: 38% or 220 outgoing deputies had been forced to leave the hemicycle as a result in particular of the application of the law on the non-cumulation of mandates which concerns a majority of parliamentarians.

This year, the proportion of outgoing non-candidate deputies is particularly high within the two traditional parties, Les Républicains and the Socialist Party (around 25%).

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Several figures from the Palais Bourbon are on the way out or have already been eliminated.

Sunday June 5, Manuel Valls who had been invested by the presidential majority in the 5th constituency of French people living abroad, was eliminated in the first round.

His failure marks a new setback for this former heavyweight of the socialist party who had left French political life four years ago to try in vain in 2019 to conquer the town hall of Barcelona, ​​his hometown.

Left and right equally affected

All parliamentary groups are affected.

At La République en Marche, the ex-boss of RAID Jean-Michel Fauvergue, elected deputy for Seine-et-Marne did not represent himself.

Several young elected figures of Macronie have also given up a new mandate: Mounir Mahjoubi, Pierre Person, Pacôme Rupin or the Toulousain Mickaël Nogal.

The former President of the National Assembly (June 2017 to September 2018) François de Rugy also chose not to stand again.

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Other elected officials to leave the Assembly: Jean-Luc Mélenchon leaves his place to his campaign manager, Manuel Bompard and thus puts an end - temporarily or definitively - to more than thirty years of parliamentary mandate.

The communist Marie-George Buffet, elected for the first time in 1997, said stop at the Palais Bourbon just like the former presidential candidate Jean Lassalle for health reasons.

On the right, Christian Jacob, the boss of the Republicans, who chaired the group from 2010 to 2019, but also Gilles Carrez or long-time elected officials like Bernard Brochand or Jean-Pierre Door do not represent themselves.

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