bringing together 23.19 % of the votes during the first round of the legislative elections on Sunday, the former far -right presidential candidate failed to qualify for the second round. The candidate of the presidential majority will face that of the national rally, Sunday June 19.
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After his elimination in the first round of the presidential election, it is a new political failure for Eric Zemmour. The President of the Reconquest Movement! was presented to the legislative elections in the 4th district of the Var. It brought together 23.19 % of the votes in the first round, Sunday June 12. Not enough to qualify for the second round in this constituency which includes municipalities such as Cogolin, Sainte-Maxime, Saint-Tropez, Le Lavandou or Bormes-les-Mimosas.
The ex-far-right presidential candidate, who had totaled 7.07 % of the votes on April 10, had a lot to face the outgoing deputy for the presidential majority and a far-right rival Supported by Marine Le Pen. Serene Mauborgne, the outgoing deputy of La République en Marche, who had been talked about in January 2020 by opposing, to the assembly, to the extension of the mourning leave in the case of the death of a child , totaled 28.51 % of the votes. The Sarthoise by birth, arrived in the region for professional reasons, had won in 2017 in the second round with 54.65 % of the votes. Philippe Lottiaux, the candidate of the National Rally (RN), unhappy finalist in 2017, for his part, gathered 24.74 % of the votes.
long hesitation
With an economy carried both by tourism and viticulture and an unemployment rate in the department of 7.5 % at the end of 2021, almost identical to the national average (7.4 %), this district offers a contrasting situation, between the upscale seaside resorts of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez and the less populated and which feels more relegated. Eric Zemmour believed in his chances of victory and dreamed in particular of an “alliance of the patriotic bourgeoisie and popular classes”, between the rich coast and the hinterland.
After having hesitated for long weeks, the ex-journalist, condemned for “provocation to hatred” and “racial insult”, had finally launched himself in the battle of the legislative elections, Thursday, May 12 on Twitter , confirming his candidacy eight days before the deadline. Hammering the conspiratorial and xenophobic theory of the “great replacement” alongside his substitute Marc-Etienne Lansade, mayor of Cogolin and former of the national rally, Mr. Zemmour presented himself as “the one who can bring together all the lines and all the people of right “.
The task was not easy for the president of reconquest! Both Marine Le Pen had dominated the department of Var in the two towers of the presidential election, even if the extreme right essayist, with 22.42 % of the votes, was very close to Saint-Tropez.
even before the designation of the 551 candidates of his party, the president of reconquest! had repeatedly called for an agreement with the RN, in vain. If Mr. Zemmour “presents himself, he went to the card,” had warned on May 4 Jordan Bardella, the acting president of the RN. “Zemmour, it’s not God,” he insisted at the end of May when Marion Maréchal accused the RN of deliberately campaigning against reconquest candidates! “Aria-Hidden =” True “>
Without a mandate or campaign before the European elections of 2024, Mr. Zemmour will now have to bounce back, after two successive political failures, if he wants his movement to be duration without being absorbed by his competitor of extreme right.