Zero out of six.
While partial legislative elections were held on Sunday evening across France, no Macronist candidate has managed to climb to the second round.
Whether in Seine-Maritime, Yvelines, Reunion, Val-de-Marne, Haut-Rhin or Maine-et-Loire, the left and the right fought for the votes of the few. 'voters who went to the polls (about 80% of abstention observed).
Asked this Monday about the rout of La République en Marche, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, wanted to minimize its impact.
"
There is absolutely no surprise in the result,
" he assured France Inter. “
These are partial legislative elections that took place in constituencies that were strongholds of the PS or the Republicans. That we had, with the exception of one, not even won in 2017. So we did not particularly expect to win today ridings that we had not won in 2017,
”he said. he adds. As for the Ile-de-France region won by the Minister of the City Nadia Hai three years ago, the macronist has again kicked in touch: “
The outgoing MP did not represent herself. So it is not a result which is very surprising
”.
