Marlène Schiappa will not be a candidate in the legislative elections next June, she confirmed Sunday to Figaro.
The name of the Minister Delegate for Citizenship, a very identified figure of the Republic on the move (LREM), was regularly cited to wear the colors of the majority in a constituency.
She indicates that she declined several proposals, without however dwelling on the reasons for her refusal.
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Elected regional councilor for Île-de-France in 2021, her candidacy in the 7th district of Paris was mentioned when the outgoing LREM deputy, Pacôme Rupin, should not run for a second term.
It is the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, who should soon be invested by the majority in this constituency.
Emmanuel Macron came in first in the first round of the presidential election, before imposing himself largely in the second.
But the left hopes to tilt this constituency in June.
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The presidential majority will soon announce the list of its candidates for the legislative elections.
Even if no date for a consultation meeting between the parties of the majority has, at this stage, been decided.
However, several Macronist officials have made their intentions known.
If the Secretary of State Adrien Taquet (Childhood and Families) has announced his withdrawal from political life (thus freeing the 2nd district of Hauts-de-Seine), other ministers should seek a mandate as a deputy for the first time.
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Thus, the Minister of National Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer,
“is interested”
in the 4th constituency of Loiret, currently held by the deputy LR Jean-Pierre Door.
Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing) is expected in a constituency of Val-de-Marne, where she has already won a mandate as regional councilor in 2021. Élisabeth Borne (Labour) has not yet confirmed her candidacy but she would be eyeing the 6th constituency Calvados, where walker Alain Tourret has announced his withdrawal.
Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Industry) wonders about a possible candidacy in Pas-de-Calais, in a stronghold of the RN.
She is still in reflection, like the Keeper of the Seals Éric Dupond-Moretti who could embark on the 15th district of the North.
Outgoing Jennifer De Temmerman, who left LREM, will not run again.
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Other ministers, already candidates in 2017, should start again.
Like the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin who is preparing, according to our information, to embark on the 10th of the North, one of the two constituencies which cover Tourcoing, where he is firmly established.
He had hesitated for a time to apply in the 9th, now owned by Valérie Petit (Horizons).