Stéphane Ravier has the voice of the miraculous.
Thwarting the forecasts and making the observers lie, the Senator National Rally (RN) of Bouches-du-Rhône succeeded, Sunday, in being re-elected for a second term in the upper house, with only 20 votes in advance.
“In '' tiny chance '', there is the word '' tiny '' but also the word '' chance '',
loose the fifty-year-old.
This chance, we went to seek it with the teeth, on the ground.
It worked.
"
After the setback of his party in his department in the last municipal, lost its town hall 7th Marseille sector, the unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Marseille had accumulated a significant delay in terms of electoral votes to hope for any reelection.
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In the Bouches-du-Rhône, 3,521 elected officials were called upon to elect 8 senators with proportional representation.
To secure a seat at the majority bonus, Stéphane Ravier had to aim for 440 votes.
Only 140 were acquired to him on September 1, 2020.
"It is folded"
, then observed, defeatist, many executives of his movement who saw, with him, the last presence of the RN in the Senate fly away.
4000 milestones traveled and 65 city councilors met later, the senator nevertheless won his seat on the wire.
Thanks to the complex rule of distribution of the seventh seat
"at the highest average"
, with 344 votes.
20 more, that the unsuccessful candidate of the Republic on the march, Jean-Pierre Serrus.
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More than the elected officials of the Phocaean city, it is to the great voters of the north of the department that Stéphane Ravier owes his tour de force.
"What made the difference, it is especially my positions against the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis
, recognizes the senator.
These elected officials are afraid of having their skills and their money plundered.
I warned them that they risked becoming simple town halls in the Marseille sector.
I will fight against it.
"
The parliamentarian also put forward its proposals for legislation to protect local officials, strengthen penal sanctions against the perpetrators of physical assaults or verbal against them, as his positions at the national level against radical Islam or the SRU law.
"The suspense will have been significant until the end"
, testifies Stéphane Ravier who, re-elected, says
"to make amends"
for not having gone more often to meet the elected officials of his territory, during his last mandate.
The cleaver is passed close enough that he is careful not to start again.
