The far -right candidate has failed to qualify for the second round in the Var, just like all the candidates of his movement, reconquest !, through France.
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The meeting had been given on a pretty shaded square in the village of Cogolin, on the heights of Saint-Tropez (Var), in a restaurant opportunely baptized with us. This is where militants reconquest! learned the defeat of their candidate, Eric Zemmour, Sunday June 12, in an atmosphere at the end of the fair.
A little before 8 pm, while waiting for the results, a hundred “fans” had turned before the establishment, starting the bottles of rosé and refusing to believe in rumors of defeat. Families, retirees, and very young people who are looking for themselves in the little crowd, shouting “Gen Z!” (Generation Z) The slap was first national. 4.25 % throughout the territory, the figures are large on the television screen connected to CNEWS for the occasion. In the square, around the fountain, we first heard cries: “But they are crazy, people!”, “What do they want? Let us all be put on the veil? “,” I break! “
remained for some the hope of seeing their herald entering the assembly, in a constituency which had granted him in certain cities a score three times higher than the national level during the presidential election of the month of april. But an hour later, the verdict falls: there either, the transplant did not take, as for all the candidates of reconquest! in the legislative elections. It was the mayor of Cogolin who announced the elimination of their foal to still incredulous activists. The same mayor who has so far housed the candidate in the town. In third position with 23.19 % of the votes, the far -right candidate does not bring together 12.5 % of the registrants on his name, a minimum threshold to be able to qualify. He therefore finds himself distant by the Macronist Sereine Mauborgne (28.51 %) and the pretender of the National Rally (RN) Philippe Lottiaux, who collects 24.74 % of the votes.
A voter in beige shirt turns to his loved ones: “I don’t know what to tell them to journalists, we are on the ass, that’s it.” It is not possible “, gets angry Stéphane, used on the 51 -year -old Toulon Rade. He shows his daughters, two young women grieving on a bench. “It is for them that I do this. People have become calves, they no longer want to work, they only want to take advantage, to take advantage.” He castigates “the start-up nation” which sells “only “, losing” gradually its industrial autonomy “.
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Above the square, residents close their shutters. Young people look at the scene by the window, making “no” head. “All around, people in turban will celebrate this,” gets angry Gisèle, 64. She claims to have spent the last years of her professional life walking 19 kilometers to go to the factory where she worked at night. Activists try to calm her down. “Watch out for insults, cameras record everything, and journalists love it!”
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