Justice seized after “racist” remarks by an RN MP

End of application period, more than 210 withdrawals. Mostly left-wing (127) or from the Macronist camp (81), these candidates had mostly come third in a constituency where the National Rally was in the lead in the first round. The Republicans also recorded three withdrawals. In total, with the 214 withdrawals recorded by theAFPonly 110 triangular and quadrangular races remain in the second round, out of the 311 expected at the exit of the polls. The second round on Sunday will therefore give rise to 390 duels, 108 triangular and two quadrangular. In addition, the National Rally has also announced two withdrawals: Sylvie Jouart has withdrawn in the 2nd constituency of Haute-Corse, in favor of a diverse right-wing candidate. The RN candidate Ludivine Daoudi, from the 1st constituency of Calvados, has decided to withdraw her candidacy following the publication of a photo of her wearing a Nazi army cap, declared Philippe Chapron, RN departmental delegate on France Bleu on Tuesday morning.

Marine Le Pen anticipates “an administrative coup d’état” from the Macronist camp. The president of the RN group in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, denounces an “administrative coup d’état” by the Macronist camp which, according to her, is considering making a wave of appointments before a possible cohabitation. “There are rumors that the President of the Republic is considering tomorrow, that is to say four days before the second round, appointing the director general of the national police, when he was supposed to stay until the end of the Olympic Games, and the director of the national gendarmerie,” she explained on France Inter. For her, “the objective” is “to prevent Jordan Bardella from governing the country as he wishes,” if the RN wins the majority on Sunday.

“Administrative coup d’état”: the Élysée Palace reintroduces Le Pen. The Élysée responds to Marine Le Pen. This morning, the leader of the RN relayed the rumor of an “administrative coup” by the presidential camp via a wave of appointments before a possible cohabitation. The presidency of the Republic calls on it to “keep calm” and “moderate”. “For 66 years, there have been appointments and movements every week, particularly in the summer, regardless of the political moments experienced by our institutions, and there is no plan that any of these provisions could change in the coming months,” the Élysée declared in a clarification. “There are rumors that the President of the Republic is considering tomorrow, that is to say four days before the second round, appointing the director general of the national police, when he was supposed to stay until the end of the Olympic Games, and the director of the national gendarmerie,” Marine Le Pen had stated on France Inter.

No grand coalition for LFI, says Manuel Bompard. “The rebellious will only govern to implement their program, nothing but the program,” responded the coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, on BFMTV, to the proposal of a “plural assembly” by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, re-elected on Sunday in the first round of the legislative elections, ruled out the idea of ​​a grand coalition if no absolute majority emerged at the end of the second round on July 7.

Tondelier calls on his voters to take their “journey” to vote Together against the RN. Invited onto the TF1 set, the national secretary of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier affirmed ” Left-wing and environmentalist voters have shown in the political history of this country that every time they had to be there, they had been there,” citing the examples of 2017 and 2022. “What should obsess us is that maybe we will have an RN Prime Minister in six days. And so all this is a process. I tell them ‘take your time’. It’s normal that we are not busy on Monday, we think on Tuesday, we start to get used to it on Wednesday, we rest a little on the weekend and then on Sunday we do it,” she added regarding the blockade vote against the RN.

For Hollande, the dissolution was “an extremely damaging whim for our country.” Asked to describe Emmanuel Macron’s strategy when he decided to dissolve the National Assembly, François Hollande said he was “not sure there was a strategy.” “It was an extremely damaging whim for our country. It wasn’t the time and it wasn’t the way to do it,” he said.

BFMTV acknowledges the “impossibility” of a debate, with a “special broadcast”. BFMTV said on Tuesday that it had acknowledged “the impossibility of setting up a debate” a few days before the second round of the legislative elections, and instead proposed a “special programme” on Wednesday evening. This programme, at 8:30 p.m., will see three leaders of the major blocs speak for “one hour each” and “in an order that remains to be defined”, the channel announced on its website. They are Prime Minister Gabriel Attal for the outgoing presidential majority, the president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella, and the national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, for the New Popular Front. BFMTV tried in vain to overcome the disagreement between the left-wing coalition and the far-right party over the identity of the representative of the left. The RN had wanted Jean-Luc Mélenchon since Monday, while the left had agreed that it would be someone else, ultimately Marine Tondelier.