It officially begins today in France electoral campaign for the early legislative elections of 30 June and 7 July, called by President Emmanuel Macron after his party’s defeat in the European elections. There will be voting in 577 constituencies and candidates from all parties have validated their candidacies by 6pm yesterday.
The candidates
Twenty-four of the 35 ministers in Gabriel Attal’s government are candidates, starting with the prime minister himself who took the field in the Hauts-de-Seine. The right-wing alliance initiated by Eric Ciotti with Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National will be able to count on the commitment of ”at least 62 candidates”, announced the president of the Republicans, guaranteeing that others will be added to these. For their part, the Républicains nominated ”nearly 400 candidates in 93 departments and in the constituencies of French people living abroad”, as the party reported. The president of Reconquête!, Eric Zemmour, announced the nomination of 330 candidates.
The appeal of athletes against the far right
More than sixty French sports personalities called on the L’Equipe website to vote against the far right. Among them, the former athletes Marie-José Pérec and Monique Ewanje-Epée, the sailors Isabelle Autissier and François Gabart, the former footballer Vikash Dhorasoo or even the former rugby players Serge Betsen and Fulgence Ouedraogo or the former tennis player Yannick Noah. Inviting the French and ”especially the young generations” to vote in the legislative elections, the captain of the French national football team Kylian Mbappé said he wanted to defend ”the values of diversity, tolerance, respect. I hope we will still be proud to wear this shirt on July 7th,” he added.
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