Home stretch in the campaign for the European elections. One week before the election, which will take place on June 9 in France, the main leaders of the list are trying to convince their voters during a weekend which promises to be busy. From Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced, Saturday June 1, that the president of the La France insoumise group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, will submit a request for “commission of inquiry into the conditions in which the elections take place”. “I ask you to raise everything”, he told his supporters, denouncing ballots not sent to voters’ homes, particularly in New Caledonia. The boss of the rebels also predicted that the LFI list would be five points higher on Sunday than what the latest polls announce, around 8%. Follow our live stream.
Valérie Hayer at a meeting in Aubervilliers, Manon Aubry in Toulouse. The ttop of the list Renaissance holds his last campaign meeting at the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), from 3 p.m. At the same time, the head of the list of La France insoumise, Manon Aubry, took part in a meeting in Toulouse notably in the company of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while François-Xavier Bellamy, head of the Les Républicains list, is traveling to Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
Jordan Bardella in Carpentras, Raphaël Glucksmann in Marseille. The head of the National Rally list, leading in the polls, made a trip this morning in Vaucluse. Jordan Bardella will be meeting tomorrow in Paris, with Marine Le Pen. From 3 p.m., the head of the Socialist Party list will be in Marseille for a meeting at the Dock Des Suds.
The candidates want to convince young people. According to an Ipsos survey for France Télévisions and Brut, published on Wednesday, only three in ten young people say they are certain to vote and 58% of young people questioned are probable or potential abstainers.
49.5 million voters called to the polls in France. According to an INSEE study published Thursday, 95% of French people of voting age are registered on the electoral lists for the European elections on June 9, or 49.5 million people. This represents 2.2 million more voters than in the 2019 European elections.