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Partial legislative: the PS hopes to keep its seat in a land dominated by the RN

2023-01-25T19:27:05.941Z


REPORT – Sunday January 29, the PS Bertrand Petit faces the RN Auguste Évrard, in the 8th district of Pas-de-Calais.


Special envoy to Saint-Omer (Pas de Calais)

Drumbeats break the usual tranquility of this town in Pas-de-Calais.

This Monday, January 23, bakers are demonstrating in front of the sub-prefecture of Saint-Omer to denounce the explosion in the cost of electricity.

Hidden in the small crowd of locals, the outgoing PS deputy, Bertrand Petit, lingers, slips a word in passing.

"Did you go hunting yesterday?"

, he throws a tap on the shoulder to an old companion.

The day before, he was not running after the game, as he is used to.

This Sunday, the almost sixty-something had especially in his sights the polling stations of his constituency for the by-election legislative.

The various left-wing mayor of Saint-Martin-lez-Tatinghem finally arrived on January 22 clearly ahead of the partial legislative election with 46.14% of the vote (+ 23.60 points compared to June) but with an abstention of 70.39%.

"This is proof that the voters have not made up their minds"

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Source: lefigaro

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