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24 votes ahead.
It was with this score that Thomas Mesnier was elected deputy for the first constituency of Charente, in June 2022. Denouncing hundreds of irregularities, his opponent from Nupes, the candidate LFI René Pilato, seized the Constitutional Council to make invalidate this election.
Several irregularities having been noted, the voters are called back to the polls on Sunday, as well as on January 29.
Believing that 27 votes were "
irregularly cast
" (differences in signatures between the two rounds, irregular proxy), the Elders of rue de Montpensier canceled the election on December 2, 2022. A decision that put an end
to facto
to the mandate of deputy of Thomas Mesnier.
Two other elected officials are also affected by this partial suffrage, the Lepenist Anne-Sophie Frigout in the Marne and the socialist Bertrand Petit in the Pas-de-Calais.
"The whole big family of the center gathered"
The outcome of the ballot being particularly uncertain and symbolic, many heads of Horizons and LFI came to support their candidate in Angoulême.
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe himself traveled to the capital of comics on Wednesday.
The mayor of the city, Xavier Bonnefont is also the regional referent of Horizons in New Aquitaine.
Renaissance MP Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet was also present at the beginning of January in support of the outgoing MP.
In addition to Renaissance and the MoDem, Thomas Mesnier can also count on the support of the UDI.
"
It is thus the whole big family of the Center that gathers around my candidacy
", he rejoices.
Faced with the outgoing deputy, the disappointed candidate of the Nupes does not lack enthusiasm.
“
Go vote, go get your neighbors and neighbors, go together to the polling stations, say that you vote Nupes, train the greatest number
”, explains the one who wants to believe in victory.
Several LFI deputies came to support him, including Clémence Guetté last week.
She sees in this partial legislative "
the possibility of untwisting an injustice
", and calls on voters "
not to be silent and not to miss this issue
".
