French Legislative Election 2017

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Out of the 428 REM candidates there are 214 men and 214 women.  This is so typical and smacks of quota politics that I deplore.  This by itself is enough for me not to want to back REM.  If having equal number of men and women are so important then why does Macron not demand that the presidency alternates between a man and a women.  Oh yeah, if they did that it would mean they will have to all vote for Le Pen in the just finished Prez election.

Are you high?

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Looks like François Bayrou is furious over the REM list that includes 24 PS MPs and only 35 on the list are from MoDem.  Mr Bayrou told Le Nouvel Observateur magazine that he and Macron had agreed before the election that about a quarter of the constituencies would be allocated to MoDem, while the remaining three quarters would be represented by REM. He said this represents the weight of the contribution he provided during Macron’s campaign.

Macron has shown from the very beginning that it's Bayrou and Valls who come to him and LREM, and not the other way round.
Wonderful.

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It's a pity this thread has become a constant whinge about Macron, LREM and the evil centrists...there will be more than enough time to discuss the presidency in the next few years.
Right now, given that this topic is about the legislative elections and the overall coverage on the internet is pretty low-quality, I was looking forward to some comments about the most important races and the more interesting candidates, too bad.