Despite the social and health crises, despite the abstention, despite the push from the far right, the voters of Hauts-de-Seine very largely placed Emmanuel Macron (LREM) at the top of the vote, this Sunday, at the end of the second round of the presidential election which pitted him, as in 2017, against Marine Le Pen (RN).
The outgoing president won 80.4% of the vote against the candidate of the National Rally, nearly 22 points more than at the national level (58.5%).
"At the national and departmental level, the result is very clear," analyzes Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman who was elected in 2017 as an En Marche deputy for the 10th district of Hauts-de-Seine (Issy-Vanves), before to continue: "But in the department, it is the score of the first round - in progress - which is even more significant".
Five years ago, Emmanuel Macron obtained 32.3% of the vote in the first round and 37.1% on April 10, thanks to the collapse of the LR vote.
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From there to consider that this last party, whose history is intimately linked to that of Hauts-de-Seine, has no other future than to be absorbed by the single party wanted by the re-elected president?
"I don't believe in a single party.
There cannot be a single republican party and the extremes, rejects Georges Siffredi, the LR president of the departmental council.
"Particularly because democracy is alternation and that, in this case, it will be the extremes," he warns.
"The voters of Hauts-de-Seine have massively rejected the candidate of the far right", estimates for her part Maud Bregeon, spokesperson for the presidential party LREM and elected from Levallois-Perret, where Emmanuel Macron obtains 80.8% votes.
"Beyond the enthusiasm generated by the results, we have more than ever the responsibility to gather, to discuss more and better," she continues.
“It is the sovereignist voices that are progressing in the Hauts-de-Seine”
If the RN vote remains contained in the department, it undoubtedly increases.
In the first round, the addition of the votes garnered by Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour (Reconquest) represented 16.5% of the votes, or 127,573 ballots.
This Sunday evening, the RN candidate obtains 19.6% of the votes, or 134,685 ballots.
A score certainly much lower than the result recorded across the country, but historically important for the department.
“It is the sovereignist voices that are progressing in the Hauts-de-Seine, believes Christophe Versini, RN departmental delegate.
It was at Plessis-Robinson that Marine Le Pen achieved her best score with 29.16% of the vote.
“Even where our results are worse than elsewhere, they are progressing,” he continues, with his sights set on the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 for which the 13 RN candidates have been invested.
“A vote of reason and not of membership”
"On her own, Marine Le Pen makes nearly 42% at the national level while Emmanuel Macron is elected, him, with all the democratic and republican forces", recalls the senator (UDI) Hervé Marseille, evoking "a vote of reason and not membership", perhaps even stronger in the Hauts-de-Seine.
"It's a sham election, marked by high abstention and a lot of resentment," he continues.
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron obtained 85.6% of the votes in the department after the second round, with a participation of 76.9%.
He therefore loses five points, with a participation down by three points as well (74.20% this Sunday).
In five years, the outgoing president has gone from 590,963 to 552,124 ballots in his favor slipped into the ballot box.
