Three weeks of whirlwind campaigning have begun after Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly. Haven’t you followed all the twists and turns of the day before the first round of the legislative elections on Sunday, then the second on July 7?
This Wednesday, a turnout rate up 20 points for the first round, compared to 2022, is announced. We hope that no one will need 20 stitches, but the campaign is tense and many candidates or activists report violence or insults. 20 euros? Not even in my dreams, Lena Situations “screws the RN” for 0.
The number of the day
66%. This is the participation rate estimated by Ifop for the first round of the legislative elections this Sunday. The proxy boom leaves no doubt, according to the opinion research institute. This would be almost 20 points more than in the first round of the 2022 legislative elections (47.8%). As a reminder, participation in legislative elections has been in constant decline since 1993, after a peak of 82.8% in 1978.
Some French people have already started voting: those from abroad. Already 250,000 of them have expressed themselves online in 24 hours, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Wednesday afternoon. This is as many as in five days during the same election in 2022.
Sentence of the day
“ 0 euros because I fuck the RN for free. » »
Accused by a tweeter of having received 15,000 euros to encourage her subscribers to “vote against the RN” in the legislative elections, the content creator reacted without filter on. Usually discreet about their political commitments, many influencers took to the front by calling to vote against the far right on June 30 and July 7.
Today’s trend
A campaign under tension. Racist insults, insults and threats, shoving… in the markets, during the campaigning, candidates and activists report attacks. And this, whether they are from the New Popular Front, the presidential majority or the National Rally.
The party with the flame and the union of the left accuse each other in particular, evoking “ultra-left militias” or “men of the extreme right, dressed all in black”. This lightning campaign, “very, very polarized”, with “a strong stake” and “two antagonistic blocs”, has “reactivated exacerbated behavior”, analyzes Luc Rouban, political scientist at the Sciences Po Political Research Center (Cevipof). And it is not Emmanuel Macron who calms things down by talking about a “civil war” in the event of a victory for the RN or the NFP on July 7.