The former Minister of the Interior, a figure of the presidential camp, seeks his re -election in the 2nd district of the department. At the end of the first round, it only benefits from a very slight advance.
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Christophe Castaner is in the lead, but in difficulty at the end of the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12. His re-election as a deputy for the 2nd district of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is not assured even if he qualified for the second round with 30.16 % of the votes. It only very slightly ahead of Léo Walter (29.3 %) of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts).
This very close to Emmanuel Macron, former Minister of the Interior then President of the La République en Marche group at the National Assembly, will not have been able to benefit from fragmented competition between multiple contenders. The left left very divided with the candidates of Léo Walter for the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), Clémence Razeau and Nathalie Hue-Courtin (various environmentalists), Frédéric Kechra for workers’ struggle, or Laurent Vicente and Laurent Vicente and Laurent Vicente and Jean-Luc Soler, labeled on the far left.
The extreme right is also gone to the disunited campaign, with, in addition to the applications of Aurélie Abeille for the National Rally and Myriam Cadel for reconquest !, That of Danièle Daux for the Patriotes, the party of Florian Philippot, ex -Marine Le Pen’s right -up.
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In 2017, Mr. Castaner had crushed competition in the first round, with 44.04 % of the vote, ahead of Léo Walter, then candidate for rebellious France (16.55 %). He won in the second round against the latter, with 61.57 % of the votes. At the time, he had benefited from the breath effect of the election of Emmanuel Macron, who had won in the second round more than 60 % of the votes in the constituency, against Marine Le Pen. The context is different this year, since the outgoing president has only ahead of his rival of a very short head, with barely more than half of the votes cast (50.67 %).
Christophe Castaner, 56, was elected in this constituency for the first time in 2012, under the colors of the Socialist Party, and re -elected in 2017 under those of La République en Marche. Minister of the Interior from October 2018 to July 2020, it was questioned in particular for the practices of maintaining order during demonstrations of “yellow vests”. He was also responsible for the organization of the first confinement and the health restrictions at the start of the crisis linked to the COVVI-19.