Praised in the first round of votes in Brittany (32.79%), President Candidate convinced the voters of the center and the right, but saw his left support escape to the profit of Mélenchon. The RN, it progresses in the Breton campaigns.
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On the paper, it looks like a Breton coupling. In the evening of the first round of the presidential election, Sunday, April 10, Emmanuel Macron was largely imposed in the Armorican peninsula with 32.79% of the vote. The candidate improves his score of more than three points in this region who had the best elected in 2017. Florian Bachelier, MP (the Republic in March, LRM) Rennes and the first Question of the National Assembly, welcomes: “The Brittany is definitely a land of macronism. We even expanded our electorate. “To look closer, the local springs of this victory seem different and demonstrate an evolution since 2017.
At the time, Emmanuel Macron had seduced in Brittany, this moderate land at the Christian democratic heritage, by his promise of a gathering by the center. He said to be inspired by the Socialist Jean-Yves Le Drian, then President of the Regional Council by the majority bringing together communists to the centrists. Over the quinquennate, Mr. Macron won the confidence of figures on the local right as Pierre Méhaignerie, former Minister and Mayor of Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine), and convinced their constituents. Many of those who voted François Fillon (19.04%) in 2017 switched, Sunday, April 10, Valérie Pécresse (4.7%) to support Emmanuel Macron.
This transfer is particularly visible in right-wing historical bastions like valves, where the head of state earns 36.84% of the vote, Saint-Malo (37.11%), glazed (41.71%), Saint-Grégoire (45.5%), the easiest commune of the peninsula or on the Breton littoral. “Convinced that Valérie Pécresse would not reach the second round and reassured by the stature of the president, the voters on the right, not only the elders of the UDF, have made a second round vote from the first. A choice of reason guided. By the context “, Analysis Olivier LePick, Mayor (Miscellaneous Right) of Carnac (Morbihan).
Flinding the Socialist Party
In Brittany, this influx of new voices in favor of the head of state masks the flight of the left electorate, very present in the urban areas. Over the warrant, voters who imitated Jean-Yves Le Drian or Richard Ferrand in their support for Mr. Macron in 2017 were gradually remote. An evolution that is verified with each local election, where the candidates from the presidential majority have failed to win. Sunday, the Breton Social Democrats have more plebiscite Jean-Luc Mélenchon (20.65%). In Rennes, Rose Bastion since 1977, the president-candidate lost two points (29.47%) while the representative of France unsuitable (LFI) increased by ten (36.31%). Ecologists, they claim 9.96% of votes.
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