The campaign promises to be difficult for the former Minister of National Education, LRM candidate in the 4th district of the department.
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Jean-Michel Blanquer gave an appointment in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its 15th century church e century, its parking lot Charles-de-Gaulle and its convenience store, which sells roasted chicken on Wednesday and Sunday, are far from the faded glory of the Flora café and the two Magots; Exactly 143.43 kilometers. Here, it is the Gâtinais, rural territory of Loiret, not the district of Juliette Gréco and Miles Davis. Nothing notable in the village, apart from silence, broken from time to time by the roar of a car.
The former Minister of National Education descends from the utility which serves him as a coach in his campaign for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. His Gentleman-Farmer flat cap has become the signing of his parachuting in the 4
The neorural found on his family tree a great-uncle of the canals in Montargis in the 1920s, when the former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping lived in the region. But this question of parachuting, “archi-classic”, defends the original Parisian, “must be exceeded”. “There is something healthy to be able to offer his candidacy somewhere,” he assures, even if he will not be able to slip a Blanquer bulletin into the ballot box, failing to reside on the spot.
Effect “seen on TV” unequal
At 57, the Macronie’s fallen star, a candidate for the first time in an election, plays his survival in politics. He thought he could present himself in the Yvelines, but the outgoing deputy of the Republic En Marche (LRM) released the claws. His entourage has found this land of conquest instead, held for sixty years by the right.
This Tuesday, May 24, L’Eclaireur du Gâtinais devotes his “one” to the outgoing deputy, Jean-Pierre Door (Les Républicains, LR), 80, “twenty years in the Assembly, memories in abundance”, who passes the hand. Jean-Michel Blanquer enters the bar-tabac to buy the newspaper. He does not salute the few regulars leaning at the counter. At the boss, he slides, shy, a leaflet when I settle: “I am a candidate in the legislative elections.” “Okay”, she replied, indifferent, without recognizing him. The effect “seen on TV” does not work every time.
Once outside, the LRM candidate, surrounded by five activists, embarks on a door-to-door. The bakery displays a sign on the rise in wheat lessons caused by the war in Ukraine. He passes without stopping. “We are not going to annoy the baker,” he said. A street further, his team found a resident. An English teacher. “You are my minister! Finally, former minister …”, she launches, between two reproaches to the “gas factory” of the reform of the bac and the project to postpone the legal retirement age at 65.
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