Snap legislative elections. After the European election results, President Emmanuel Macron decided to dissolve the National Assembly following the victory of the National Rally in the European elections. The official campaign for the legislative elections will begin on Monday, June 17, two weeks before the first round on June 30. Candidates have until June 16 to declare their candidacy. In Alpes-Maritimes, most of the outgoing candidates are running again.
The outgoing LR deputies are running again
This new opportunity to counter the president was quickly seized by Christelle D’Intorni, who announced her candidacy on X. If she is re-elected, it is to stop the “decline of France in which Macronism has plunged us”, she writes on her X account.
Unsurprisingly, Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans, will be a candidate for his own re-election. Éric Pauget, Alexandra Martin, and Michelle Tabarot have not yet declared their candidacy, but they are also expected to run. For these legislative elections, they are more than ever challenging their majority in the department, given the weak score obtained by their candidate François-Xavier Bellamy in the European elections (8.87%).
Former deputy Laurence Trastour-Isnart would like to be a candidate in Alpes-Maritimes. “I have submitted my candidacy to Eric Ciotti,” she explains. But she does not know if she will obtain her party’s endorsement.
The former deputy of the presidential majority is running again
After announcing that he was still hesitating, Philippe Pradal, former mayor of Nice, is finally running for re-election in the 3rd constituency of Alpes-Maritimes.
The outgoing RN candidates quickly say “present”
Bryan Masson, deputy of the 6th constituency, and Alexandra Masson, deputy of the 4th constituency, both members of the RN party, will be candidates for their own re-election. Lionel Tivoli is returning to the campaign in the northwest of Alpes-Maritimes.
On the road to a left-wing alliance?
Julien Picot, departmental secretary of PCF06, calls on the republican left to take responsibility to “urgently build a project and strategy to block the far right on both a national and departmental level.”
The same injunction comes from the Viva group, where the time is not for resignation, but rather for “mobilization.” Thus, the left could present joint candidacies in each constituency with a leitmotif: “to unite against the far right.”
