LIVE – Legislative elections 2022: the French vote for the second round – BFMTV

11:46 Damien Abad votes in Oyonnax The Minister of Solidarity is a candidate in the 5th district of Ain. The one who qualified for the second round has just voted. Arrived in the lead, he faces Florence Pisani, candidate of the Nupes. 11:36 Elisabeth Borne votes in Vire The Prime Minister goes to the polls in Vire, in Calvados. In the 6th constituency, she came first in the first round, winning 34.34% of the vote. She beat Noé Gauchard, the Nupes candidate, with 24.54% of the vote. This is the first election campaign for Elisabeth Borne.11:27Julien Bayou votes in ParisThe national secretary of EELV voted in Paris, where he is a candidate in the 5th constituency.Candidate Nupes came out on top in the first round, in front of Elise Fajgeles, Ensemble candidate. 11:17 Jean-Luc Mélenchon votes in Marseille The leader of the Insoumis votes in Marseille, where he is a deputy. This time, it is Manuel Bompard, campaign manager of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is the candidate, invested by the Nupes. He came first in the first round in the constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône. His opponent is Najat Akodad, candidate for the presidential majority. 11:09 Marine Le Pen votes in Hénin-Beaumont The finalist in the presidential election votes in Hénin-Beaumont. She is herself a candidate for re-election in the constituency of Pas-de-Calais. Arriving in the lead in the first round, she narrowly failed to be elected in the first round. Facing her, the ecologist Marine Tondelier, supported by Nupes. Valérie Pécresse voted this Sunday morning shortly before 11 a.m. in Vélizy-Villacoublay, in the Yvelines. 7 inhabitants year-round but a few more voters on the electoral lists because this commune of Haute-Garonne has a few secondary houses. No crowds are expected in the only polling station in the commune. Mayor Guillaume Caussette had no trouble finding assessors: it is mainly municipal councilors who are responsible for holding the polling station, explains the city councilor. Impossible to imagine closing the polling station before 6 p.m. this evening, even if the whole village went to the polls before closing. “We are required to keep the office open until official time”, assures the mayor of the village. Last week, 15 voters out of the 21 registered voters voted in Trébons- de-Luchon. That is a level of abstention of 28%, almost two times less than the national average. 8:41 Minister Amélie de Montchalin votes Essone. The minister, candidate in the 6th district of the department, faces the socialist deputy, supported by the NUPES, Jérôme Guedj. In the first round, the candidate of the presidential majority obtained 31.46% of the votes against 38.31% for his opponent.8:30Edouard Philippe votes in Le HavreThe former Prime Minister is the first political figure to go to the polls. He voted in his stronghold of Le Havre, a city of which he is mayor. In this constituency of Seine-Maritime, voters must decide between a NUPES candidate, who came first in the first round, and a Together candidate! of State in charge of the Sea Justine Benin, beaten in Guadeloupe The outgoing deputy, appointed to the government a month ago, lost to Christian Baptiste, the various left candidate. The only Modem elected to the government obtained 41.35% of the votes cast against 58.65% of the votes for his opponent, according to figures from the prefecture of Guadeloupe.8:008 a.m.: polling stations open for the second roundVoting day everywhere in mainland France. Voters are called upon to decide between the 1,148 candidates still in the running for this second round of the legislative elections. The polling stations will remain open until 6 p.m. or even 8 p.m. for the big cities. One of the challenges of this election is participation. It amounted to 47.51% of those registered in the first round, an unprecedented level for these elections. 7:20 Five candidates were elected in the first round Five candidates were elected in the first round, four for Nupes and one for the outgoing presidential majority Ensemble:Sophia Chikirou (Nupes) in the 6th constituency of ParisAlexis Corbière (Nupes) in the 7th constituency of Seine-Saint-DenisYannick Favennec-Bécot (Ensemble) in the 3rd constituency of MayenneSarah Legrain (Nupes) in the 16th constituency of ParisDanièle Obono (Nupes) in the 17th constituency of ParisThese five candidates obtained both more than 50% of the votes cast and a number of votes at least equal to 25% of the registered voters in their constituency.7:151148 candidates for decide for the second round1148 candidates are in the running for this second round. The candidates of the outgoing majority (LaREM, Modem, Horizons and Agir) are the most numerous (415), ahead of the left alliance Nupes (380), not counting three socialist dissidents. As for the National Rally, it aligns 209 candidates in the second round and Les Républicains 71 (in addition to five UDIs and 14 DVDs). You can consult the list of candidates in your department and your constituency in our article. 7:05 Towards massive abstention ?Towards a new record for the second round? More than one in two voters shunned the ballot box last Sunday for the first round of the legislative elections, an unprecedented level for such an election: the abstention rate reached 52.49%, according to final figures from the Ministry of Interior. Political scientists put forward a structural explanation for this relapse: the presidential election remains the queen election of the Fifth Republic and the legislative elections, especially since the inversion of the calendar which has placed them since 2002 in the wake of it, are struggling to more and more to mobilize. Since 1993 (30.8%), abstention in the first round of legislative elections has continued to grow and the movement has further increased significantly since 2007 (39.6%) and 2012 (42.7 %) and especially since 2017 (51.3%). Hello everyone and welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the second round of the 2022 legislative elections. Polling stations open this Sunday morning at 8 a.m. everywhere in metropolitan France, closing at 6 p.m. or 8 p.m. depending on the municipality. voting practices, you can consult our frequently asked questions.