Blanquer and Wargon eliminated in first round of legislative elections, figures of majority in difficulty

The former Ministers of National Education and Housing did not manage to qualify on Sunday June 12. Christophe Castaner, Florian Bachelier and Barbara Pompili are in tag.

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If not a setback, it is at least a signal. And the one that the voters sent, Sunday, June 12, to Macronie is sometimes brutal. Admittedly, at the end of the first round of the legislative elections, the Presidential Party La République en Marche (LRM) and its allies can hope for a majority in the Assembly. But it will have nothing of a formality. Witness the scores displayed by headliners, local barons and “stars” of the previous government. Often tight, sometimes decided, the results attest that voters have little attachment to the power in place.

Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister of National Education, was notably eliminated in the first round. A few hundred votes, defend his supporters. But it is enough for the former rector, who confronted himself for the first time in his career by universal suffrage, is forced to throw in the towel.

Arrived in third position, with 18.89 % of the votes, the former minister was preceded by the candidate of the National Rally (RN), Thomas Household (31.45 %), and that of the new Ecological People’s Union and Social (Noups), Bruno Nottin (19.43 %), in the 4 e district of the Loiret. “It seemed to me that this fight had to be waged, a fight that had its nobility,” he said, seeming to regret anything. The bitterness, however, quickly overwhelmed the one who had seen his star pale in the government, in the last months of the five -year term. Stressing the verbal and physical violence he was the subject of, the former of the rue de Grenelle complained, Sunday evening, claiming that “all the candidates were against [him]” and enjoining voters to favor “the Calm applications “.

Less visible, Emmanuelle Wargon, former Minister of Housing, was also defeated, in Val-de-Marne, fading behind Michel Herbillon, candidate Les Républicains (LR), and Eric Pagès (Nupes).

possible weariness

Barbara Pompili, former Minister of Ecological Transition, qualified for the second round in the 2 ^e district of the Somme. But with 29.84 % of the votes, the ex-Europe Ecology-Les Verts Talons the candidate of the Nuts, Zahia Hamdane (29.98 %), without being guaranteed to win on June 19. A score far from that of the former journalist and outgoing deputy of rebellious France, François Ruffin, who wins 40.09 % of the votes in the 1 re sup> district of the sum.

In the 6 ^{e district of Finistère, Richard Ferrand, president of the National Assembly, has come first, with 33.56 % of the votes, before the candidate of the Nut , Mélanie Thomin (31.16 % of votes). But this relative of the Head of State, deputy since 2012 and essential cogs of the parliamentary majority, loses votes compared to 2017. Emmanuel Macron had nevertheless made, in this rural district of Center Brittany, in Spézet, one of His rare trips of his presidential campaign. Probable sign of the wear and tear of macronie and a possible weariness of voters towards a political movement still poorly defined …}

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