She knew her hours were counted.
Outdistanced by nearly seven points by the candidate of Nupes, Jérôme Guedj, in the first round of the legislative elections, the brand new Minister for Ecological Transition, Amélie de Montchalin, was eliminated at the end of the second round, in the sixth. Essonne constituency.
She won 46.64% of the vote, against 53.36% for her opponent from Nupes, Jérôme Guedj.
Close to LR, Amélie de Montchalin had joined Emmanuel Macron from the start.
In 2017, she was elected hands down in the second round in this same sixth constituency of Essonne by collecting more than 61% of the votes in her favor in the second round, against the candidate UDI-LR Françoise Couasse.
She had therefore taken the place of the socialist Jérôme Guedj, eliminated in the first round, who takes his revenge in 2022.
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.
Amélie de Montchalin was appointed in 2019 Secretary of State for European Affairs to replace Nathalie Loiseau, then campaigning for the European elections.
She was then appointed Minister of Transformation and the Public Service in July 2020 then Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion under the brand new government of Elisabeth Borne.
Amélie de Montchalin must now give up on her place in government.
As the executive had wanted, all the ministers who were candidates for the legislative elections went into the campaign knowing that a defeat would oblige them to resign.
They were in that position for this election.
Guedj, former rebellious deputy of the PS
The former socialist president of the Essonne departmental council Jérôme Guedj will return to the Bourbon palace at the age of 50.
The former rebellious deputy of the PS had already represented this constituency between 2012 and 2014: as François Lamy's deputy he had replaced him in the Assembly when the latter had been appointed minister under François Hollande.
Coming from a socialist family, a graduate of Sciences-Po and ENA, he joined the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) in 1996.
This inspector of social affairs, a specialist in issues related to this area, is a former close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for whom he was a parliamentary assistant in the Senate and with whom he campaigned when the leader of the Insoumis was elected in Essonne.
Their paths had separated in 2008 following the creation by his mentor of the Left Party.
Ironically, the two ended up in 2022 with the Left Alliance.
"We met at the nomination convention, he told me,
you see, everything is possible
, but I no longer have a personal relationship with Jean-Luc," Jérôme Guedj told AFP during his meeting. country.
Results of the first round of the 2022 legislative elections
Registered: 83,238 Attendance: 50.18% (41,770) Abstention: 49.82% (41,468) Blank votes: 506 (0.61%) Invalid votes: 207 (0.25%) Votes cast: 49.32% (41,057)
38.31% Jerome Guedj (NUP)
31.46% Amelie de Montchalin (ENS)
10.62% Lisa Haddad (RN)
5.96% Chantal Lacariere (LR)
4.02% Wendy Longchampt (REC)
2.90% Mokrane Sahari (DVD)
1.69% Esther Bommelaer (ECO)
1.29% Escaterina Askar (DSV)
1.10% Elisabeth Piotelat (DVG)
0.99% Bastien Vayssiere (DXG)
0.75% Frank Chen (DVD)
0.62% Jules Rohault de Fleury (DVG)
0.31% Pierre Baronet (DIV)