“We can say tonight that she is number one.
Not a candidate does better than she in France, “exults one of his relatives.
Half an hour before the official proclamation of the results of the regional elections, euphoria was already reaching the camp of the outgoing PS president of Occitanie, Carole Delga.
Renewed widely with 57.8% of the vote, the former Secretary of State of François Hollande can boast of being the best elected candidate in France.
She widely distances her two pursuers.
The candidate of the National Rally, Jean-Paul Garraud collects 23.9% of the vote, or 1.3 points more than Sunday, June 20, while Aurélien Pradié, number 3 of the Republicans, seduced 18.3% of the voters against 12.2% in the first round.
The outgoing president refused an alliance with environmentalists
At around 8:20 p.m., Carole Delga spoke from the terrace of a café on the Place du Capitole in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).
“Courage, closeness and common sense guide our action.
At nearly 58%, this result honors and obliges me.
I can measure its scope and power, ”she declares solemnly.
And to greet, to applause, the voters of a "region which refuses fatality and determinism, which pushes back the far right".
For the RN candidate, Carole Delga "gives the impression of walking on water, but it's a puddle," he tackled this Sunday evening, in reference to the strong abstention.
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From the evening of the first round, the Socialist had already taken an option on the final victory by gleaning 39.6% of the votes, by far the best score achieved by an outgoing socialist president.
And foiled in passing the poll forecasts which placed the RN MEP in the lead.
On the evening of June 20, she had set herself the ambition to exceed 50% in the second round.
Objective pulverized therefore.
She was even able to afford the luxury of doing without an alliance between two turns with the ecologist Antoine Maurice (8.8%), considered too greedy during the discussions on the merger of the lists.
One of Anne Hidalgo's main supporters
This clear victory further strengthens Carole Delga's position as a rising figure of the PS in the national landscape.
This Sunday evening, the one who counts among the main supporters of Anne Hidalgo has also defended "a left of reality which does not compromise with the values of the republic, which acts for security (...) which believes in the company and in its employees ”.
In the PS, before his announced victory, a senior PS executive was full of praise for the regional president.
“Carole shows with others that the PS is not dead, rejoiced this close to Olivier Faure.
She has a radiant, dynamic personality.
And she is a true social democrat: on the left without ambiguity, but also in economic realism.
It makes us feel good.
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