Legislative 2022: threatened with disappearance, Les Républicains party still exists

The right collected 13.2 % of the votes and hopes to become an arbitrator by being the third group in the National Assembly.

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It may be the most important ballot in the history of the Les Républicains Party (LR). After her scathing defeat in the presidential election, during which her candidate, Valérie Pécresse, obtained 4.78 % of the votes and therefore failed to be reimbursed her campaign costs by the State, the right plays its survival during these legislative elections. To continue to exist and have a certain weight on the French political spectrum, LR must keep a large group in the National Assembly. Because if he had been in agony for several years, wiping defeat on defeat at the national level, the party had remained, until today, the first opposition group, with more than a hundred deputies.

Sunday, June 12, the training, whose executives may claim that they were going to create surprise despite their obvious concern, was able to blow. Even if it is very weak, their party still exists. In the first round of the legislative election, LR and its allies, in particular the UDI, brought together 11.3 % of the votes (13.2 % by aggregating the various right candidates), limiting breakage. Unsurprisingly, the right is the fourth political force of the country in votes cast behind the three blocks made up around the outgoing majority of Emmanuel Macron on the one hand, of the new ecological and social popular union (NUPPES) under the aegis of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen.

They were 75 LR-UDI candidates on Sunday succeeded in qualifying in the second round, including 56 outgoing. It is certainly not the 199 duels in which LR participated in 2017, but the figure remains higher than the result of the presidential election suggested. “A relief”, explains the leader of the LR MEP, François-Xavier Bellamy, who points out that some even “multiplied the result of their presidential candidate by ten”. Among the qualified, some deputies have indeed recorded scores exceeding 40 %: 45.46 % for Aurélien Pradié in the 1 re district of the lot, or even 42.07 % for Annie Genevard in the 5 e district of Doubs.

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If the qualifications in the second round mainly concern the outgoing, on the right we even dare to dream of conquest with new arrivals. Thus in Haute-Loire, where LR puts on Yannick Neuder, who arrived first before the RN in the 7 e district of Isère. Or Antoine Vermorel-Marques, also arrived first in the 5 e district of the Loire.

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