Last round. In the second round of parliamentary elections Sunday, June 17, the French have to decide between the last candidates. For the parliamentary left (Socialist Party, the Greens Europe-Ecology and the Left Front), which received 46.77% of votes in the first round, the challenge now is to win at least 289 cen ; management of 577 to command a majority in the National Assembly.

Comforted by their score of 10 June, 29.22%, the Socialists hope to achieve on their own absolute majority, thus avoiding having to deal with their allies. For opponents of the UMP, beset by internal divisions, it is to keep the damage.

The poll began on Saturday in Guyana and the Caribbean, closing a week between the two towers marked, right, by the strategy of "neither-nor" ( or National Front, or republican front) and adopted by the UMP, left, by the case "tweetweiler" which has embarrassed the Socialist Party and the Elysee.

Duels in suspense

Besides the expected score of abstention – June 10, it reached 42.77%, a record for legislative – this election is different issues. Within hours of the results, including the eyes are pointed at La Rochelle, where the Socialist candidate supported by the government, Segolene Royal, the dissident faces Olivier Falorni, who was sent a tweet encouragement by Valérie Trierweiler, wife of the President of the Republic. An electoral battle on which the ambitions of the former Socialist candidate for president in 2007, eyeing the perch of the National Assembly.

Side of the Modem, Francois Bayrou, who plays his political survival, attacking a triangular face risky Nathalie Chabanne (PS) and Eric Saubatte (UMP) in the second district of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, it represents over 25 years. The centrist candidate could be punished by voters swayed by his vote in favor of Francis Holland in the second round of the presidential election.

In the UMP – who won 27.12% of votes in the first round – it is especially in the fourth district of Essonne that one of the battles over media should play: the outgoing member Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet faces the PS candidate Olivier Thomas. Calling the candidate to beat UMP, the National Front (FN) has supported the controversial socialist.

The FN hope, for his part, win up to five districts, starting with that of Henin-Beaumont, in the Pas de Calais, where Le Pen got 42% of the votes June 10 The return on the benches of the Assembly would be a first for the party since 1998.

Finally, among the Ministers-government candidates Ayrault is on Carlotti concern that weighs most. Faced with the UMP Muselier in the 5th district of Bouches-du-Rhône, home to the right, the Minister for disabled people should, as provided for under rule announced by the prime minister, quit his post in case of defeat.