A tense evening.
Accounts.
Recounts.
And a mathematician who ends up on the mat.
This Sunday evening, around 10:45 p.m., the Essonne prefecture ended the showdown over the 5th district (Orsay, Les Ulis, Gif-sur-Yvette, etc.).
And for 19 votes, Paul Midy, the candidate Ensemble was ahead of the ecologist Cédric Villani (Nupes): 18,687 for the candidate of the presidential party, against 18,668 for the outgoing deputy.
"That's less than 0.04%", calculates the outgoing deputy, Fields medalist (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics) who was elected in 2017 under the LREM banner with nearly 70% in the second round.
In his campaign headquarters, the perceptible despondency quickly gave way to collection work.
“We are going to take stock of everything that has been noted and we will probably appeal,” announces Cédric Villani who planned to sit with the Greens if he had been elected.
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.
Opposite, another mathematician: Paul Midy, a 39-year-old polytechnician, general manager of LREM, who was living his first campaign, came out exhausted, but victorious.
“It was stressful, very intense, he breathes.
We won in the snatch after six weeks of surveying the field non-stop.
Friday (
June 17
) again, we had to clarify the situation by teaching many voters that Cédric Villani was Mélenchon's candidate.
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“I am satisfied with the national score of Nupes”
Voices that undoubtedly made the difference in the home stretch.
"It was project against project, facing a world-renowned personality, that gives even more value to this success", savors Paul Midy, parachuted into Essonne, but who despite everything knows this 5th district perfectly for having studied there. and set up his first business.
A territory generally acquired by Emmanuel Macron who achieved 36.6% there in the first round of the last presidential election, the best score in the department.
Yannick Jadot only won 4.97% of the national vote.
“In 2017, I had surfed on a wave En Marche which was not mine, there it was an alliance of local activists from four or five different parties who joined forces behind me, decrypts Cédric Villani who had presented to the town hall of Paris in 2020. I am satisfied with this cohesion... and with the national score of the Nupes.
The choice of ecologists to merge into this collective was the right one.
But I paid the price.
Apart from Les Ulis, the alliance with La France Insoumise was seen negatively by the voters I met.
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