Legislative 2022: nomination of Jérôme Peyrat makes waves in Dordogne

The choice of the inauguration commission of the presidential majority, to the detriment of the outgoing deputy Jacqueline Dubois, is strongly criticized in the 4th district of this department.

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It has been ten days since the nomination of Jérôme Peyrat by the presidential majority for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 annoyed, in the 4 e district of the Dordogne. This choice is far from being unanimous, both among local militants of La République en Marche as among its competitors.

The mayor of La Roque-Gageac, who has made a large part of his political career on the right, is a relative of Emmanuel Macron of which he was advisable in 2019. After a preliminary investigation launched against him, he had Resigned from office in January 2020 and was sentenced in September of the same year for domestic violence on his ex-partner by the Angoulême Criminal Court. Mr. Peyrat defends himself today by minimizing the scope of this conviction.

“amazement”

The regional councilor of Nouvelle-Aquitaine assures that the slap he gave to his ex-partner- which caused a total temporary incapacity of fourteen days, according to Mediapart -, during an “argument which became violent”, was not voluntary. He said to the world that his ex-partner was “condemned to a firm fine for malicious calls and messages” and deplores “the amalgam” made by his contemptors between “his personal affair and the dramas of intra-family violence”.

But his inauguration Saturday, May 7 by together !, At the expense of the outgoing deputy Jacqueline Dubois, does not go to local activists. “If our outgoing deputy legitimately came to imagine, many activists would provide him with support and campaign alongside him, assuming the potential consequences of such a commitment,” warned the Perigord “walkers” of the local committees of Sarlat and Terrasson.

In a press release published on Sunday May 15, they explain that they have learned “with amazement the inauguration awarded” by their party and not to have “been contacted by the candidate” since. Finally, activists criticize Jérôme Peyrat for having been a candidate for the 2017 legislative elections in a color other than the Republic on the march, among the Republicans.

“Symbols that make a stain”

left on the touch, M dubois experienced this announcement badly. “It is a betrayal on the part of Mr. Peyrat, he had assured me that the outgoing candidates were legitimate”, deplores this retiree from 64 -year -old education, persuaded “that the party had validated his candidacy, but that that The piloting was done above “. The deputy says it receives many testimonies of sympathy for a week, “I strongly consider the continuation”, she confides in the world.

For the outgoing deputy, Mr. Peyrat “is a man of apparatus and cabinet”. “He is never present in local authorities”, unlike her, “very locally established” in his “big district”. M me dubois nevertheless chose “not at all attacking the legal problems” of Mr. Peyrat, because “many already take care of it”.

Like Sébastien Peytavie, candidate for the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) in the 4 e district of the Dordogne who says “to have been surprised to see Mr. Peyrat Invested by the majority because Mr. Macron validated all the constituencies “. According to him, this criticized investiture “is the very symbol of” at the same time Macronian “. “On the one hand, the president makes the subject of the fight against violence against women the great cause of the five -year term, and on the other he appoints a candidate condemned for domestic violence”, tances Mr. Peytavie. The candidate of the radical left notes that “nothing legally prevents the candidacy Mr. Peyrat, but that there are symbols that make a stain”.

“It is true that it is the first time that someone condemned has appeared here”, analyzes Christian Teillac, various left -wing and dissident socialist candidate. “It had to be an exemplary republic and it is not at all, deplores Mr. Teillac. But it is the voters who will decide through their votes.”

/Media reports.