Legislative 2022: official campaign begins for more than 6,000 candidates in first round

The posters of the candidates will be installed in each commune in France on Monday, and an audiovisual communication time is granted to each political training.

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Emmanuel Macron began his second mandate to the Presidency of the Republic, Elisabeth Borne was appointed Prime Minister and her government was largely formed: five weeks after the end of the presidential election, it is the turn of The campaign for the legislative elections to officially start, Monday May 30.

The 6,293 candidates whose file was validated by the ministry were twelve days before the weekend of the first round of the polls to try to convince the voters to choose them as a deputy in one of the 577 districts represented at the ‘National Assembly, of which eleven reserved for the French established abroad.

The latter already have access to the internet vote, from May 27 and until 1 er June. The first round will take place in advance in French Polynesia (Saturday June 4) in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (Saturday, June 11), Then Saturday June 19 everywhere else on national territory.

campaign displays and audiovisual communication

If work with voters in the field has, for some candidates, started for several months, the opening of the official campaign allows both the trigger for the electoral display and the opening of the audiovisual speaking time For political parties.

As early as Monday, in an order drawn by the prefecture, the campaign posters of candidates in each district – up to twenty -two in the 9 e district of the French abroad abroad – must be glued on tables in each municipality. The circulars (or professions of faith) of the candidates, whose printing cost is reimbursed by the State, must be sent to the authorities and then made public on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.

At the same time, the Audiovisual and Digital Communication Communication Authority (Arch) grants each political party to which at least seventy-five candidates say they are attached a seven-minute television niche before the first ballot. The existing parliamentary groups have more time (up to an hour) of antenna to disseminate their electoral propaganda.

The possibility, for political parties, to add their communication time if they wish, should allow the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts) to have a common time despite the fact that the Alliance of the left does not have a funding association, which had prevented the candidates from declaring themselves with this obedience when declaring their attachment as audiovisual propaganda. The clip also filed a summary appeal before the Council of State to contest the color chart decided by the Ministry of the Interior to display the political trends in the evening of the first and the second round and which it was dismissed Profit of the original training for candidates.

The official campaign will continue until late in the evening of Friday, June 10, at midnight, to respect the traditional political silence the day before the vote then on the ballot, before resuming at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 12, in the Perspective of a short-lasting in-time of one week.

/Media reports.