“I don't have all the results but defeat is certain.
“This Sunday evening, at 9:30 p.m., it is by a short SMS that Stéphane Testé, LREM deputy leaving the 12th district (Livry, Montfermeil, Le Raincy) suggests that it is over.
“I think I will stay with my team, the evening is difficult,” he adds, succinctly.
At that time, the two other LREM parliamentarians also elected in 2017, Patrice Anato on the 3rd (Noisy-le-Grand, Neuilly, Gournay) and Sylvie Charrière on the 8th (Villemomble, Rosny-sous-Bois and Gagny) also doubt that the carrots are cooked.
“It is acquired, the three leave”, drops around 9:45 p.m. a close friend of the Renaissance teams (the new name of LREM) and those of the presidential majority (Together!).
Then: “Are we off there?
“he asks, before launching:” Because on the ground, it was a disaster, we were in a state of ruin … We felt a rejection, we met people who had voted Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the presidential election and who had voted for Nupes in the first round of the legislative elections.
We felt that in Seine-Saint-Denis, people needed a change.
In the analysis made by this political activist, the desire to empty his bag is mixed with the fierce desire to bounce back as quickly as possible.
At 10:30 p.m., Stéphane Testé sends a new SMS, this time more official: “I was swept away by the national whirlwind, he says.
I am proud of my career and the work accomplished for five years”, he wrote, before addressing his “Republican congratulations” to Jérôme Legavre (Nupes), elected with 51.11% of the votes.
“First, I will have to rework”
Sylvie Charrière, who reached 46.43% against Fatiha Keloua-Hachi (Nupes), also expressed her disappointment tinged with concern.
She no longer remembers her scores in the three cities of her constituency: “Bah, either we lose or we win, she drops, with a little disarray in her voice.
These are not easy times.
I arrived with the Macron wave (
in 2017
), I leave with the Mélenchon wave.
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Consult all the results of the legislative elections in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Find the results in Aulnay-sous-Bois (10th district), Bobigny in the 5th district but also Noisy-le-Grand (9th district) and Rosny-sous-Bois in the 8th district.
“I am disappointed that my commitment for five years is not recognized.
I am very worried for the country.
We are entering a moment of crisis in relation to Ukraine, inflation.
If the strategy of the Nupes group is the same as the one we had for five years in the hemicycle – that of obstruction and systematic refusal – the country will no longer be able to move forward.
We also have a very high score from the National Rally, ”she underlines, before returning to Seine-Saint-Denis.
“The whole department is once again becoming red territory, finally with different shades of red.
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When Sylvie Charrière is asked how she sees herself in the future and how she envisages the continuation of the Renaissance movement in the 93, she has not yet settled on an answer.
“First, I will have to work again”, smiles the one who comes from National Education.
“We have to create our local barons”
"It's not so much the desire to exist in Seine-Saint-Denis as to help this department that matters," she continues.
We are the only department to have had a specific action plan which is a
stronger state in Seine-Saint-Denis
.
It was not unusual.
It is better to have deputies from the majority than from the opposition, this is a speech I made during the campaign: when you are in the majority, you weigh more on the destinies of a territory.
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For lack of having been heard, she openly wonders: “I am a baby Macron, I had never done politics before, she recalls.
Next, I don't know.
There, it is still a cataclysm.
When we see that our tenors are out… I don't know… I don't know at all how things are going to be organised.
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Patrice Anato, he felt he had been swept away by the Mélenchon wave, after his defeat (46.04%) against Thomas Portes (Nupes), who won with 53.96% of the vote.
Despite this setback, he confided this Sunday evening his intention to continue his political commitment, in particular by directing the departmental section of Renaissance and by participating in future elections.
For his part, the MoDem Alexandre Saada, coordinator of Emmanuel Macron's campaign in Seine-Saint-Denis and dryly beaten candidate for the presidential majority in the 9th district, is already trying to formulate concrete proposals.
“We have to create our local barons, like LR did.
We need internal elections at each level and work on the status of referents 93. We are no longer in the wave of 2017, in benevolence.
There you have a base of people who want to do politics, who want to be elected and gain ground.
It will be long, but there will be a sequel after that.
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