The Minister of the Economy will not represent himself in his constituency, on June 12 and 19. “I have always told the voters that I will not do more than three terms: I hold a word,” he said on Thursday.
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He will not go. In a statement released on Twitter at the same time as he was holding a press conference in Evreux, Bruno Le Maire announced on Thursday May 5 in the morning, that he will not show up in the legislative elections on June 12 and 19. “I have always told the voters that I will not do more than three terms: I hold a word,” said the Minister of Economy, Finance and Relaunch, elected in 2007 and 2012 in the first constituency of Eure, first under the UMP label, then, in 2017, under the macronist banner of the Republic En Marche (LRM).
The announcement, which preceded by a few hours the publication of a first list of investitures of the presidential party, may surprise on the part of the heavyweight of the government. Among the other members of the executive, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who shared Bercy with the Mayor until the summer of 2020 as Minister of Public Accounts, he, he, on Thursday, his candidacy in the North.
The district of the Mayor, a largely rural area struck by deindustralization, at the gates of Ile-de-France, is one of those where the National Rally (RN) has produced its best scores at the presidential election. The Eure, whose departmental council is chaired by Sébastien Lecornu, faithful of the head of state, is the only department of Normandy to have placed Marine Le Pen in the second round, April 24. The Mayor sweeps away from any idea that his withdrawal is due to a refusal of obstacle: “Political life needs clarity and change in his practices” and a constituency “is neither a right nor a rent: she imposes Duties, including that of leaving room for new or different personalities, “he justified against the press, Thursday.
strict rule
“It is only a surprise for those who do not know me, he explains to the world. I believe in the change of political practices. I have proven that I could face the direct universal suffrage three times. I am free from my choices, “claims the one who had resigned from the high public service in 2012 to, he said, fight” the spirit of caste “. At the time already, he brought a bill for “democratic renovation” in order to limit to three the number of successive mandates of deputy.
The announcement contrasts with the atmosphere of 2017, when the former Minister of Agriculture of Nicolas Sarkozy said: “Without the voters of the Eure, I have no legitimacy.” A period, Emmanuel Macron, newly elected, had implemented a strict rule: members of the government in the running for the legislative elections should give up their posts in the event of a defeat. “I can lose everything,” said the new tenant of Bercy. He had finally obtained 64.53 % of the votes in the second round in his constituency, facing the candidate of the National Front.
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