After the end of the campaign Friday at midnight, one million French overseas, out of the 49 registered this year, will give this Saturday their preference to constitute the National Assembly, six weeks after the re-election of Emmanuel Macron and a campaign for the legislative elections which hardly interested.
Depending on the time difference, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon opened the ball at 8 a.m., i.e. noon, metropolitan time, then will come the turn of Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Antilles, Wallis and Futuna, the New Caledonia, Reunion and finally Mayotte. With which game? In the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had come very far in the lead, and even a majority of the votes in Guyana, Guadeloupe and Martinique.
In French Polynesia and in the eleven constituencies of French people living abroad, the first round has already taken place on June 4 and 5. It led to the resounding elimination of former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. The presidential majority is in the lead in ten constituencies, closely followed by Nupes which qualified for the second round in nine of them, compared to five in 2017.
In the territories as in mainland France, abstention will be a key player in the ballot. It could reach 52 to 56% nationally, it traditionally borders on 72% in the overseas territories, except in Wallis and Futuna. In the first round in 2017, the three Polynesian kingdoms had mobilized up to 80% of the registered.
Including the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, fifteen members of the government are in the running for the legislative elections, including Justine Benin, the Minister of the Sea, who is defending her seat in Guadeloupe.