The second round of the departmental elections could be an opportunity, for the RN as for the majority, to anchor itself locally.
It was missed: the National Rally like La République en Marche did not manage to win a department.
The RN even made a worse result than expected in territories that we thought had been conquered.
In the Pyrénées-Orientales, where the LR candidate had said he was ready to work with the RN (before evoking a "misinterpretation" of his words), the far-right party did not manage to obtain a single seat . Despite 33% of the votes cast, a score that allows the RN to take the lead in the department, the voting system offers it no seat and allows the left to retain its majority. Same thing in the Aisne where the RN, according to partial results, has no seat at the end of the second round.
The majority, it hoped to keep the few departments it had: it was missed. In Seine-Maritime, if the outgoing president, Bertrand Bellanger, is clearly re-elected in his canton, the left generally wins in the department and should be able to take the head of the departmental council. In Puy-de-Dôme, whose outgoing president LREM, Jean-Yves Gouttebel, at the head of a mostly left-wing majority, was not represented, it is the right that wins.
In most departments, as in the regions, it is the outgoing majority… which remains. But this is not true for all. In the canton of the Catalan Pyrenees, that of the Prime Minister, the outgoing right-wing pair is beaten by the left. In Brittany, the Côtes-d'Armor went back to the left, after six years on the right, when neighboring Finistère switched to the right, after a very close match with the left. On the left since 1998, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence has shifted to the right, for the benefit of the Republicans, just like the Ardèche. The last communist bastion, Val-de-Marne would also switch to the right, according to partial results.
Several personalities were to be watched. The ministers first of all who wanted to save the government, badly engaged in the regional elections. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, won his seat in the canton of Tourcoing with more than 64.98% of the vote, as did Sébastien Lecornu in the Eure. The Minister of Overseas, facing the RN, obtains more than 80% of the votes. In Pas-de-Calais, the Minister of Autonomy Brigitte Bourguignon won more than 66.3% of the vote, also facing an RN duo.
Marine Le Pen was also engaged in the fight of the departmental, in the canton of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais).
The patron of the National Gathering, in tandem with Steeve Briois, won 59.7% of the votes against a duo from the left.
In all, in the North, the RN won six seats in the North.
Vice-President of the Republicans, Guillaume Peltier, campaigning in the canton of Chambord (Loir-et-Cher), won his seat by a short head, with 50.9% of the vote.
In the second canton of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in Corrèze, Claude Chirac, daughter of Jacques and Bernadette Chirac, made her political debut, under the colors of the right.
She could have been elected in the first round (58.4%), but the abstention (68.5%) had been too strong, forcing her to a second round.
She does better this Sunday, obtaining 70.6% of the vote.
