The Republican right had a lot to lose in an election that was polarized around the clash between the presidential majority and Nupes.
Christian Jacob's LRs suffered from the extremely low score of their presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse (4.8% of the vote).
Finally, LR and its allies took advantage of their local roots to manage to qualify a good number of their candidates in the second round of the legislative elections with a score of 13.7% of the votes at the national level, according to an Ipsos Sopra Steria estimate. .
In terms of projections, the Republicans and the UDI would obtain 50 to 80 seats in the Assembly.
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In the event of a duel between candidates from Nupes and Ensemble!, the president of LR Christian Jacob does not want to give "no voice for the extremes, whether it is the far right or the far left", he said. warned Sunday on France 2.
Asked about the voting indications that LR will give in this case, "we will define it tomorrow because we have strategic advice, but there is a line that has always been clear: there is no voice for the extremes, whether it is the 'far right or the far left,' he said, announcing that the LR deputies will be 'constructive' in the opposition.
“We are the useful vote, we will be useful to France”
The boss of the Republicans Christian Jacob assured this week that his party would "create a surprise" in the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 and "be a decisive player" to weigh in the next five-year term.
"In 15 days we will create the surprise", explained the boss of the LR, even if he refused, during a press conference, to any forecast on the number of winnable seats (LR holds a hundred of them today today, making it the main opposition group).
“Those who say
the poor, they will disappear will
be at their expense”, for his part assured the president of Hauts-de-France Xavier Bertrand, while LR recorded a historic setback in the presidential election with 4.8% of the votes. voice.
Even if "we are not going to overturn everything and have a majority", LR "has a card to play on the value of authority, the value of work", he added.
Both spoke after a strategic council which brought together the majority of the leaders, with a few absentees – neither Laurent Wauquiez, nor Éric Ciotti, nor Valérie Pécresse were present.
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In the Assembly, "the LR deputies are in a position to change things", assured Christian Jacob, praising "the local anchorage" and the ability of LR to be "force of proposal".
Thus "the texts which go in the right direction, we know how to vote them, the others we know how to oppose firmly" and "we will continue in this spirit", he added.
But LR will "certainly not" be a "stepping stone" for the future majority, he warned.
Asked about the "useful vote" which LR paid for in the presidential election, he felt that "we are the useful vote, we will be useful to France".
Consult the
results of the legislative elections
, constituency by constituency.
Follow the results in particular in Paris, Marseille or Lyon.
As well as the results in the districts of Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d'Oise, Essonne, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines and in Oise.
