French President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche LREM is the newcomer in the race: in the last municipal elections in , the party wasn't even founded and Macron had not even been appointed economy minister by then-president Francois Hollande.
LREM won a parliamentary majority in , the year Macron was elected president. Macron said in January that he wasn't concerned with the vote, declaring that "local elections are local elections". But it remains a big test ahead of the next presidential election in France in Macron's party must now prove that it can win in French regions and rural areas. Around 2, councillors across France have become LREM members since , but the party is hoping to gain far more, around 10,, at the municipal elections.
After failures at the presidential and parliamentary elections, and disastrous results in the European elections last year 8. The party also hopes to keep big southern cities like Nice and Marseille. Marine Le Pen's far-right RN came first in the European elections and hopes to continue the trend. In , the party — back then still named National Front — won in eleven towns made up of more than 9, people. It hopes to gain more this time and has called for outsiders to run as RN candidates.
But it isn't targeting big cities: the biggest city in which there is an RN candidate is Perpignan, southern France, with a population of , It came first in Perpignan in the first round. This election is risky for the ruling party, which struggled in the regions during the "gilets jaunes" "yellow vests" crisis last year. But while it may win in some big cities, in smaller cities and towns where the party's roots are weaker, LREM has played it safe. It has sent candidates in only half of France's towns of 10, people, often choosing to support LR candidates instead of sending their own.
The Agriculture minister Didier Guillaume set up a list to run in Biarritz southwest but abandoned the race before the first round. Between the "gilets jaunes" "yellow vests" movement and the various strikes, the protests against Macron's controversial pensions reform, and the government's response to the coronavirus crisis, LREM's image has suffered. Eligible French adults registered to vote. Unlike for municipal elections, other European Union nationals resident in France do not have a say in these regional and departmental votes.
Turnout could be a factor. In a survey of registered voters last week, 54 percent told Ifop pollsters they intended to stay away on Sunday. A full This year's elections were meant to take place in March, but were delayed twice — first by three months and then by another week — as a precaution over Covid The second round is on June Three other regions - Corsica, Martinique in the Antilles and French Guiana on the northern shoulder of South America — vote to fill the seats of their respective territorial assemblies.
Meanwhile, 15, candidates are standing for a total of 4, seats in most French administrative departments. Including overseas territories, France has departments, but there are some exceptions that don't hold departmental elections, like Paris and the greater Lyon area.
Winners are elected for six-year terms as a rule. But with a particularly crowded election year, this month's lucky winners will get to sit a little longer, until March For the regional elections, parties present lists that must alternate candidates male and female from top to bottom.
To qualify for the runoff, a list must score 10 percent of the vote. But those that score at least five percent are allowed to join up with a qualified party for the second round. That more-the-merrier run-off ethic makes horse-trading another idiosyncratic feature.
For departmental elections, candidate duos — always a man and a woman paired together — throw their hats in the ring as one, vying for seats in one of more than 2, cantons across the country, grouped into departments.
After two rounds, each member of the winning pair wins an individual seat and exercises his or her duties separately on a departmental council.
Regional jurisdiction includes high schools, ports and airports, regional train and inter-city bus networks, regional natural parks, and waste management. And the electorate is fragmented. A front runner is Marine LePen, the far right leader. Her closest competitor is Emmanuel Macron, an independent with a new party who's never held elected office before.
One time favourite, Francois Fillon, has been tarnished by an embezzlement scandal. Benoit Hamon was the unexpected winner of the Socialist primary and could still gain traction. The outcome of the second round is harder to predict, with much hinging turnout and tactical voting. But May the 7th is not the end of the election season. French voters will go to the polls again on June the 11th and 18th, this time to elect the members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament.
Voters from each of France's constituencies will pick their local representative, known as a deputy, to sit in the house. It is another two-round process in which the two candidates with the most votes and any other that wins at least Once the legislative elections are over, the president must then appoint a prime minister to form a government that can command a majority in the assembly.
In the past, presidents were forced to run France with governments from other political parties. To avoid this recovering, presidential terms were reduced from seven to five years, and parliamentary and presidential election cycles synchronised.
But it may happen again.
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