Brigitte Bourguignon narrowly qualified in Pas-de-Calais during first round of legislative elections

The Minister of Health and Prevention, candidate for her re-election in the 6th district of Pas-de-Calais, qualifies for the second round against the candidate of the National Rally.

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A first step is validated, but nothing has yet been won for Brigitte Bourguignon. The Minister of Health and Prevention qualified in pain during the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12, in the 6 e district of Pas-de-Calais. Under the colors of the presidential majority, she totaled 32.1 % of the votes and will face the candidate of the National Rally, Christine Engrand – who brought together 30.33 % of the votes – in the second round scheduled for Sunday, June 19. The hardest part remains to come for the minister, who intends to keep her constituency: the voters have carried the ex-candidate of the National Rally (RN) to the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, in the lead in the first round (37.8 % ) as in the second (57, 7 %).

This 63 -year -old discreet woman was responsible for being the Minister for the Autonomy of Persons between July 2020 and May 2022 in the government of Jean Castex, before being promoted to the very exposed post of Minister of The health and prevention of the Elisabeth Borne team, May 20.

“Social leg”

Born in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) in a workers’ family, Brigitte Bourguignon first worked at the city’s communal action center of the city. A member of the Socialist Party (PS) from 1989, she became, in 2001, assistant to the mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Frédéric Cuvillier. In 2008, this running follower was appointed national secretary of the PS for sport. Succeeding in 2012 at Jack Lang in the 6 e district of Pas-de-Calais, she is, three years later, a member of the special commission for the Macron law, and then appreciates with the future president ” The process of pragmatism “and the idea” to take the best of the left and the right “.

She rallies to En Marche! In May 2017 and retained his district against the National Front, which has since become national rally. After the resignation of her deputy, Ludovic Loquet, she was re -elected, in June 2021, with 62 % of the votes, during a partial legislative against the RN, and, wishing to stay in government, she gives way to her new substitute, Christophe Leclercq.

Quite quickly, at the beginning of the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron, she regretted that the government of Edouard Philippe forgets “the social leg” of the project of the candidate of En Marche !. Since then, she has embodied the left wing of the majority – she notably joined the current territories of progress, in 2020 – not without irritating in her camp. If she wants to remain minister in the Borne government, M Bourguignon will have to win, Sunday, June 19, because, as in 2017, members of the government candidates for deputation will have to resign in the event of failure.