LR MP Jean-Louis Thiériot wants to ban three-way races in legislative elections

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The 2024 legislative elections, post-dissolution, set a record for three-way contests, despite the Republican Front's withdrawals to prevent the National Rally from winning. These finals of three, or sometimes four or more, depending on the number of candidates who exceeded 12.5% ​​of registered voters and are able to remain in the second round, sometimes produce ludicrous or bizarre results. LR MP Jean-Louis Thiériot no longer wants all of this. That's why he has tabled a bill "aimed at limiting to two the number of candidates authorized to run in the second round of the legislative elections."

"In a democracy, it is not abnormal to see certain actors use to the maximum of their potential all the rules with which they operate. The law is made that way and it had to be respected [...] However, it is not because the law legitimately offers the possibility to a candidate - by his withdrawal - to influence the result of an election, that this law is necessarily fair and well made", judges the right-wing elected official in the presentation of