They were 221 on the starting line and there will only be 30 left to be candidates next Sunday.
The first round of the legislative elections in Paris was full of surprises.
While five years ago, a macronist tsunami swept away 13 out of 18 constituencies in the capital, this time, the left is picking up the colors and even managing to elect three deputies in the first round: Sophia Chikirou in the 6th , Sarah Legrain in the 16th, and the outgoing deputy of the 17th, the Insoumise Danièle Obono.
Nupes thus comes first in 12 out of 18 constituencies.
Danielle Simonnet and Sophia Chikirou are among the three candidates sent to the National Assembly in the first round by Nupes.
Julien Bayou failed to join them for only 1%.
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Two ministers in danger
It is the rule if they lose at the polls, they will also have to leave the government.
Thus, the head of the Republic on the move, Stanislas Guerini, will he regain his seat in the National Assembly and keep his post as Minister of Transformation and the Civil Service?
Although outgoing MP for the 3rd constituency, with 32.5% of the vote, he came six points behind the Nupes candidate, the ecologist Léa Balage El Mariky.
Consult the results of the legislative elections in Paris, constituency by constituency.
Follow the results in particular in the 1st district (Paris 1st, Paris 2nd and Paris 8th), the 5th district (Paris 10th and Paris 3rd), the 10th district (Paris 13th and Paris 14th), the 16th district (Paris 19th).
Another threatened minister, Clément Beaune, was roughed up in the 7th constituency by the candidate Nupes Caroline Mecary, who won 40.43% of the vote.
The Minister Delegate in charge of Europe arrived 5 points behind the candidate of La France insoumise.
Only Olivia Grégoire, spokesperson for the government, can approach the second round with a little more serenity since she came out on top with nearly 40% of the votes.
Bad evening for Anne Hidalgo
Lamia El Aaraje, the socialist candidate in the 15th constituency, protected by the mayor of Paris, defended by many PS personalities like Lionel Jospin, came second in a duel that promised to be epic.
But with 17.87% of the vote, she is very far behind the elected representative of rebellious France, invested by Nupes, Danielle Simonnet, with more than tense relations with Anne Hidalgo, who collected 47.11% of the vote.
The 15th district was the only one that the Parisian socialists had managed to keep five years ago.
Not sure they'll do better in a week.
The other two candidates, they invested by Nupes unlike Lamia El Aaraje, qualified for the second round.
But Marine Rosset, in the 2nd constituency, and Olivia Polski, in the 11th, have very few voice reserves to hope to win.
The mayor of Paris nevertheless welcomed the momentum found in the capital.
“In Paris, the left and environmentalists come out on top in 12 out of 18 constituencies,” said Anne Hidalgo, before reiterating her support… for the only socialist candidates still in the running for the second round, still excluding Nupes from her encouragement.
The right holds its breath
Will she succeed in saving the two constituencies she kept in 2017?
For the Parisian right, the danger of not sending any elected Parisian to the Assembly is real.
Brigitte Kuster, in the 4th constituency, and Mayor Francis Szpiner, in the 14th constituency, will have to fight hard to hope to keep the last Parisian constituencies that were acquired on the right.
But they leave late.
MP Brigitte Kuster is twelve points behind Macronist candidate Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, while for the mayor of the 16th century, the gap with his Macronist competitor Benjamin Haddad is “only” 6 points.
Outgoing deputies in difficulty
For several outgoing Macronist deputies, this first round of the legislative elections is a real slap in the face.
Laetitia Avia, in the 8th constituency, Buon Tan, in the 9th, Anne-Christine Lang, in the 10th: they all came in second position between 13 and 18 points behind their challengers from Nupes, Eva Sas, Sandrine Rousseau and Rodrigo Arenas.
The Macronist deputy for the 18th constituency, Pierre-Yves Bournazel, who had created a surprise in 2017 by tearing off this constituency anchored on the left, arrived 10 points behind the candidate invested by Nupes and former television columnist, Aymeric Caron.
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“We knew it would be difficult since the left is united from the first round.
What counts is the vote in the second round.
Do voters want to give a majority to the president to keep some stability?
What majority do we want for the next 5 years?
I call for mobilization.
There were a lot of abstentions.
Many do not recognize themselves in Nupes ”, wants to believe Pierre-Yves Bournazel, who will undoubtedly insist, between the two towers, on his local anchorage.
“Me, I am a local deputy, I live in my constituency.
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