FactualDuring the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron benefited from calls from left-wing candidates to vote against the far right. In the legislative elections, dismissal is not automatic.
To win the presidential election in 2017 and 2022, candidate Emmanuel Macron was able to count on a Republican front against the candidate of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen. Most of the left-wing candidates eliminated in the first round (Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo, Fabien Roussel) had clearly called to vote for Emmanuel Macron when Jean-Luc Mélenchon asked not to “not give a single voice to Marine Le Pen”.
But does this Republican front work the other way around? Together Candidates! eliminated in the first round of the legislative call to block the RN? The government majority coalition remains on a strategy of ” case by case “.
We have listed the instructions and reactions of the candidates of Together! in the 61 constituencies where a far-right candidate (RN, Debout la France or other) finds himself in a duel with Nupes. According to our counts, only nine of them clearly called to vote for their ex-rival on the left, and fifteen not to vote for the RN, while most remain on general considerations or refuse any instructions.
This total is likely to change, since some candidates have not yet expressed their views.