After record abstention in the first round, will the French reconcile with politics in this last ballot of the political marathon of 2022?
Nothing is less sure.
The campaign between the two rounds was marked by a muscular confrontation between Nupes, the left alliance and the presidential majority united under the banner Ensemble!, the candidates for an armchair at the Palais Bourbon having clashed until the last moment.
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Legislative results 2022: the map of candidates
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Will Emmanuel Macron obtain an absolute majority in the Assembly?
In the meantime, on Tuesday June 28, the date of the opening in public session of this XVIth legislature, will the Macron camp have an absolute or simple majority?
If 2017 had marked a very clear victory for the Head of State, the latter has continued to see the voting intentions for his party Together!
during the second round campaign.
The polls did not guarantee an absolute majority of at least 289 seats for Emmanuel Macron's camp, like the last Ifop poll of June 17, which awarded him between 270 and 300 seats.
In an Odoxa Backbone Consulting poll for
Le Figaro
, 70% of French people do not want an absolute majority for the president.
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1,148 candidates were in the running in the second round, against 6,293 on the first last Sunday, including 655 men and 493 women.
Among the contenders, there were 370 incumbents, 70 of them having been eliminated in the first round.
The candidates of the outgoing majority (LREM, MoDem, Horizons and Agir) were the most numerous (415), ahead of the left alliance Nupes (380), not to mention three socialist dissidents who had refused to join this coalition.
As for the National Rally, it lined up 209 candidates in the second round and Les Républicains 71 (in addition to five UDIs and 14 DVDs).
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Due to the low turnout in the first round of voting which took place on Sunday 12 June, some candidates who exceeded the 50% mark had to undergo a second round, as the number of votes obtained had to be at least equal to 25% of the number of registered voters.
This is the case, for example, of Marine Le Pen in her constituency of Pas-de-Calais (11th) where she won with 53.96% of the vote.
For the same reasons, the rebellious Manuel Bompard, who was running in the 4th constituency of the Bouches-du-Rhône of the outgoing Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has not yet certified his seat, although he has collected 56.04% voices.