Borne government: Fifteen legislative candidates will have to resign in event of a defeat

As in 2017, members of the government candidates for deputation will have to resign in the event of failure. The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, candidate for the first time in an election, is also concerned, but runs little risk.

Le Monde

Emmanuel Macron intends to enforce the same jurisprudence that five years ago to his government candidates in the 2022 legislative elections. In the event of a defeat, the latter will have to resign from their posts, whether they are secretaries of ‘State, delegated ministers, full exercise ministers and even … Prime Minister. Information communicated by the Elysée to several media, especially in the world.

Among the twenty -eight members of the new government, unveiled Friday, May 20, fifteen are indeed candidates for the deputation -in 2017, there were only six concerned -, the first of them, Elisabeth Borne.

candidate terminal in a low risk district

The government’s chef is a candidate for the first time in an election in the 6 e district of Calvados. A constituency where M bounds short little risk, since Emmanuel Macron came first in the first round of the presidential election with 30.8 % of the votes ahead of Marine Le Pen (26.8 %) And Jean-Luc Mélenchon (17.7 %), then in the second with almost 57 % of the votes cast. Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate in charge of Europe, also seeks his first elective mandate, in the 7 e district of Paris, during the election of June 12 and 19.

Others, outgoing or not ministers, are candidates for their re -elections: this is the case of Amélie de Montchalin, Minister of Ecological Planning, elected for the first time in the National Assembly in 2017, in the 6th district of Essonne, of Olivier Véran, now Minister Delegate in charge of relations with Parliament, in the 1 ^{re district of Isère, of the Minister responsible for overseas, Yaël Braun -Pivet, in the 5 e district of Yvelines, or Damien Abad, new Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and Persons with Disabled, elected deputy under the label Les Républicains before leaving his Political family, in the 5 e district of Ain.}

Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior renews in his functions, is a candidate in the 10 ^{e northern district, whom he had already won during a previous legislature (2012 -2017).}

Two heavyweights of the previous government, also renewed in their functions, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, and Eric Dupont-Moretti, Keeper of the Seals, have for their part renounced to be candidates, there are a few weeks.

The first, elected since 1 ^{re district of the Eure since 2007, had justified renouncing third mandate by arguing: “I always said that I would not do more Three mandates. I respect my promises. “The second has renounced him to embark on his first election, after having hesitated to present himself in the 15 e}