Legislative 2022 LIVE: Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Elisabeth Borne engage in a duel from a distance in Normandy...

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THE ESSENTIAL 

• Legislative elections take place on June 12 and 19.

  About 48 million registered voters are called upon to elect their 577 representatives to the National Assembly for the next five years, among more than 6,300 candidates.

• This Wednesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of Nupes, goes to Caen to hold a meeting.

  Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will also be visiting Calvados, in Vire, where she is a candidate.

• According to some polls, the presidential party could lose the absolute majority in the Assembly, the Together coalition only winning between 24.5 and 28% of the voting intentions.

  But a victory for Nupes, a coalition of the left, remains unlikely for the time being.

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9:22 am: Duel in Normandy

Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will engage in a duel today in Normandy four days before the first round of the legislative elections.

The first will be in Caen, the second in Vire.

The leader of the rebels will hold his last big meeting before the first round of legislative elections on Sunday and the Prime Minister is organizing a meeting, starting at 8 p.m.

9:15 a.m.: A nice paper on the majority that tries to stay cool

My article on the presidential majority trying to stay cool despite the bad polls for the legislative elections is on the cover of @ 20Minutes this morning.

To read here: https://t.co/t1XtUIUAtV.

https://t.co/W7wGW0B86L

— Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel (@Ra_GarVal) June 8, 2022

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9:10 a.m.: A Council of Ministers on the program

The Council of Ministers will be held from 10 a.m. at the Elysée

8:40 a.m.: North Gironde, former home of "yellow vests", in the sights of the RN

"I've been campaigning for 5 years."

In the 11th constituency of the Gironde, the candidate and regional leader of the National Rally Edwige Diaz intends to rock this wine territory, former home of the "yellow vests", after the breakthrough of Marine Le Pen in the presidential election.

On the market of Saint-André-de-Cubzac, 25 km north of Bordeaux, the leaflets do not have time to burn the fingers of the candidate with the false airs of Marion Maréchal Le Pen.

Edwige Diaz, 34, kisses, treats and receives support from supporters "hoping it will pass this time".

In the 2017 legislative elections, she was clearly beaten by outgoing LREM MP Véronique Hammerer, elected at 57.02% against 42.98% for Edwige Diaz.

But now another battle is being played out.

Former stronghold of "yellow vests", the constituency "recorded a fairly significant increase" in the RN vote, notes Girondin political scientist Jean Petaux.

Between 2017 and 2022, Marine Le Pen climbed six points in the first round of the presidential election, going from 30 to 36%, he says.

Emmanuel Macron remains around 20%.

Of the 87 municipalities, only 5 placed it in the lead, underlines the RN.

8:30 am: The Corsican nationalist camp in dispersed order

In 2017, the Corsican nationalists and autonomists had regrouped under their flag to conquer three of the four constituencies of the island of Beauty.

A union that does not know a second edition, after Gilles Simeoni's solo race for the territorial elections of 2021. The nationalist camp has since been even more divided, after the violence which shook the island following the death of 'Yvan Colonna.

In three constituencies, the nationalists will therefore leave in dispersed order.

8:10 a.m.: Julien Lassalle, brother of Jean, takes up the torch

In the countryside in Banca, a small village in the very rural 4th district of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the shepherd and candidate Julien Lassalle deliberately forgot his black beret, which reminds him a little too much of Jean, his media brother and outgoing deputy.

"I already had enough of an image of a half-candidate and a little brother", smiles the brother of Jean Lassalle, the former presidential candidate and deputy for 20 years for this territory between Béarn and the Basque Country, to whom he will try to succeed.

Julien Lassalle, 62, shepherd in Lourdios-Ichère in the Aspe valley and candidate under the colors of the fraternal movement Résistons!, is not however totally new to politics.

He ran for regional elections in 2021, for the Rurality Movement, with a score of 13.6% in the department.

Hello everyone !

Only four days left before the first round of the legislative elections in France, the French abroad having already voted (and eliminated Manuel Valls).

We are going to follow this new political day, between following the controversy over the shootings of the police and the Council of Ministers.

• Elections

• Legislative elections 2022

• Nudes

• The Republic on the March (LREM)

• Emmanuel Macron

• Elisabeth Borne

• Jean-Luc Melenchon

• Marine Le Pen