La République en Marche had chosen to invest the ex-socialist minister in place of the outgoing deputy, Stéphane Vojetta, who had been dissenting.
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The transplant did not take. Manuel Valls, candidate invested by La République En Marche (LRM) in 5 e district of the French from abroad (Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco), was eliminated in the first round, Sunday 5 June. The former Socialist Prime Minister has recognized his defeat in a published message window On Twitter : “If dissent and division have sown confusion, I cannot ignore my score and the fact that my candidacy has not convinced. An election is a moment of truth.”
In his message, Manuel Valls calls, for the second round, to block the candidate of the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts), Renaud Le Berre, who came first according to his training. The details of the election results were not yet available on the website of the Ministry of the Interior .
The investiture of Mr. Valls by LRM had provoked the media contesting the outgoing deputy, Stéphane Vojetta, who considered himself the natural candidate of the presidential party. He had immediately announced that he would be a candidate for his succession, and denounced the “parachutages and upheavals of the old world”. “The French of the constituency deserve to be represented by a person for whom proximity, loyalty and respect for the word given have a value,” he added in his press release.
The formula was aimed without appointing his competitor and his political versatility. In 2017, after his defeat in the primary of the left for the presidential election and the victory of Emmanuel Macron, Manuel Valls had been re -elected deputy in the 1
“beautiful synthesis”
Stéphane Vojetta, he claims to have “put down [his] suitcases” in the constituency about twenty years ago. However, he truly occupied the headquarters from October 2021: substitute for Samantha Cazebonne in the 2017 legislative elections, he had replaced it when it had been elected to the Senate. At the beginning of May, with the world, he had expressed his conviction to be re -elected without worrying about his exclusion from La République en Marche: “Once elected, I have no doubt that I will be reinstated in LRM or in Another party of the presidential majority. “
“I was appointed candidate by the presidential majority at the request of Emmanuel Macron”, insisted for his part Mr. Valls, adding: “I am serene, this candidacy is a good synthesis of my journey between France And Spain. I want to convince voters that it is a chance for them to have a former Prime Minister with a loud voice to defend them. “