Legislative results 2022: Christophe Castaner beaten in his stronghold

Severe failure for the leader of the Walker deputies.

At the end of a campaign led as a notable, the former Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner was defeated on Sunday in his stronghold of Forcalquier (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) by the Insoumis Léo Walter (Nupes).

In the first round, the ex-socialist came in slightly ahead (30.16% of the vote).

But he apparently suffered from an anti-Castaner front supported by the voters of the RN candidate, who had gathered 23.31% of the vote.

Between the two towers, the RN mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, had said that he wished his failure, even by voting for Nupes.

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Legislative results 2022: historic setback for Emmanuel Macron, very far from an absolute majority in the National Assembly

At 56, after a passage criticized Place Beauvau in full movement of "yellow vests", this pillar of the Macron quinquennium sees the inhabitants of his stronghold end twenty years of elective office.

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before the ballot, this son of a soldier, a law graduate, projected himself far from the cenacles of power in the event of failure.

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