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Reverse of LREM in partial legislative elections

2020-09-21T17:53:05.268Z


The presidential movement did not qualify in the second round in any of the six legislative elections at stake.


Unsurprisingly, abstention was massive in the first round of the six partial legislative elections.

About 80% of the voters called did not go to their polling station.

In this particular context, La République en Marche suffered a serious setback.

The presidential party was eliminated in the first round in all constituencies.

LREM even lost its seat in Yvelines, conquered in 2017.

“There are absolutely no surprises in the result.

These are partial legislative elections which took place in constituencies which were strongholds of the PS or the Republicans, ”

defended Monday morning on France Inter Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman.

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For their part, the Socialists were smiling on Sunday evening.

The PS came clearly in the lead in the first round in three legislative out of six.

In Seine-Maritime, the socialist candidate, Gérard Leseul, was well ahead of the RN candidate, Jean-Cyril Montier (40% against 18.01%).

In Reunion, Karine Lebon is also in the lead (52.15%) but will have to go through a second round due to the too high abstention (more than 75%).

In Val-de-Marne, the socialist, Isabelle Santiago, also beat the ecologist, Sandra Regol (33.7 against 17.4%).

For their part, the Greens are rather satisfied with their results from the first round with three candidates qualified for the second (Haut-Rhin, Val-de-Marne and Maine-et-Loire).

"The controversies, sometimes brutal, of recent weeks have placed us at the center of the game,"

says Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV.

These partial legislative measures prove that the French are not fooled by the cartoons carried out against environmentalists, ”

assures the boss of the Greens.

Majority at bay

On the right, if the low turnout is seen as a worrying sign of French

“fractures”

, we are above all delighted to see a new weakening of the presidential party, which fails to bring out a single candidate.

The Republicans, for their part, should remain, next Sunday, in their fiefdoms of Haut-Rhin and Maine-et-Loire.

They could even qualify in the Yvelines where their candidate Philippe Benassaya came out on top with 36.7%, or more than 11 points in front of the left and more than 21 points in front of the Marcheurs.

"These results are unambiguous for us"

, confides Christian Jacob to

Le Figaro

.

The President of the Republicans is pleased to see the right in the process of qualifying in three legislative out of six.

“Clearly,

adds the deputy for Seine-et-Marne

, it is the continuity of the municipal elections with a new scathing failure for La République en Marche - which will be present nowhere in the second round - and also an inability to establish itself for the National rally

.

"

Eric Ciotti, chairman of the LR nomination committee, immediately bounced back by noting the score of the right in the first constituency of Haut-Rhin.

With 45.39% of the vote, Yves Hemedinger should retain the LR seat on Sunday.

"Not bad for a party given for dead!"

, welcomed the deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, relaying the 3.13% of Jean-Frédéric Baechler, candidate of the center and of the presidential majority.

For Damien Abad, president of the LR group in the Assembly, a cruel conclusion is in order:

“It is Berezina for LREM eliminated everywhere and it is proof of their uprooting, of their disconnection with the field.

This majority is now at bay and only holds by the presidential thread. "

One week before the senatorial elections and the second round of partial legislative elections, the deputy for Ain intends to see for the right the evidence of a "

capacity to embody the France of the territories

".

Source: lefigaro

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