Reunion passes from right to left.
The head of the left-wing union list, Huguette Bello, supported by La France Insoumise and the Socialist Party, won the second round of the regional elections against outgoing ex-LR president Didier Robert, Sunday, June 27, 2021. She arrived in lead with 50.9% of the vote ahead of his opponent (49.1%), according to SAGIS estimates for Réunion La Première.
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The only overseas region hitherto held by the right, Reunion differs from France, where all metropolitan regions have renewed the outgoing presidents at their head, following the second round of regional elections.
"The result signs our victory, the victory of the Reunion, we get nearly 51% of the vote,"
said the candidate for the antenna of Réunion La Première from the city of Saint-Paul, of which she is mayor.
His conquest of the most populous of the overseas territories - 850,000 inhabitants - was greeted by the president of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"It's a night of defeat, we have to accept it,"
said the outgoing president, at the head of the island since 2010.
