The Minister of the Interior is a candidate in the 10th district of the North, where he had been elected for the first time in 2012, under the colors of the Union for a popular movement (UMP).
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The Minister of the Interior came out widely at the top of the first round of the legislative elections in the 10th district of the North, Sunday June 12, with 39.11 % of the votes. He will face, in the second round, the candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), Leslie Mortreux who obtained 23.08 % of the votes.
The candidate of La République en Marche, a strong man of the government of Elisabeth Borne, had carefully prepared the land to appear in the favorable position. Elected deputy in this same constituency in 2012, then under the colors of the Union for a popular movement (UMP), ancestor of the Les Républicains Party (LR), Gérald Darmanin had left the hemicycle in January 2016, to devote himself to the Vice-presidency of Hauts-de-France after Xavier Bertrand’s victory in the 2015 regional.
It was Vincent Ledoux who had won the bypass election following the resignation of Mr. Darmanin, under the banner, then, of LR. He had been re-elected in 2017 against Sophie Taieb, candidate of La République en Marche, before joining the presidential majority himself in the Center right Party Act. At the same time, Gérald Darmanin entered the government of Edouard Philippe. The outgoing deputy was not represented in 2022; On the other hand, he is the deputy of Gérald Darmanin, who was therefore able to campaign on his record. Mr. Darmanin did not stop, on Twitter, from put your pair forward .
If the presidential camp obtains the majority in the hemicycle, and if Gérald Darmanin himself wins in the second round, there is every chance that he will be renewed in his functions at the Ministry of the Interior. In this hypothesis, Vincent Ledoux could automatically replace him in the Assembly, without by -election.