Legislative 2022: In Marseille, symbol city for Macron, presidential camp jostled

The personal investment of Emmanuel Macron and the billions of euros to come from the plan “Marseille en Grand” did not save the candidates together! to undergo the naked wave, in the first round of the legislative elections, Sunday June 12.

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In his Elysée Palace, Emmanuel Macron must say that Marseille is very difficult to grasp. The President of the Republic, who, since September 2021, came four times on an official visit to the second city in France, announcing his wish to make it a laboratory of his policies, sees the candidates together !, which he personally supervised the ‘Investiture, to be seriously tossed.


 of electoral posters for the first round of the legislative elections, in Marseille, Sunday June 12, 2022.
Poster for the NUPS with Manuel Bompard and Jean Luc Melenchon in the 5th district Electoral posters for the first round of the legislative elections, in Marseille , Sunday June 12, 2022.
Poster for the NUPS with Manuel Bompard and Jean Luc Melenchon in the 5th district Patrick Gherdoussi/Divergence for “Le Monde”

In 2017, the Hussars d’en Marche had swept on the first legislative turn. Qualified in the seven districts of the city, they were in the lead in four of them, sometimes improving the percentage obtained by Mr. Macron in the presidential election a few weeks earlier. Four of these political novices will ultimately be elected, the other two – including the Modem Eléonore Leprettre, future chief of staff of the Minister of Relations with Parliament Marc Fesneau – being styled by the Biscards Les Républicains (LR) Guy Teissier and Valérie Boyer.

The efforts made by Emmanuel Macron to seduce the city have since been numerous. The “Grand Marseille” plan and its various components, with more than 3 billion euros, were voted by the National Assembly. The main leaders of the Marseille right have rallied the presidential majority and the agreement is cordial with the socialist mayor Benoît Payan, leader of the Marseille spring, who however supports the new ecological and social popular union (NUPES).

Martine Vassal’s attitude denounced

las. Sunday, June 12, the evening of the first round was tough for the contenders together! Said Ahamada and Alexandra Louis were out of their respective constituencies in the first round. In these territories of the northern districts, victory will be played between the candidates Nuts, local figures of rebellious France (LFI), who came first, and representatives of the National Rally (RN), almost unknown a few weeks ago. In the city center, overall hopes! were also showered. The young lawyer Najat Akodad, who faced in the 4 e district Manuel Bompard, owes her presence in the second round only at the low participation rate. With 14.88 % of the votes against 56.04 % to her opponent of the Nuts, she did not feed any hope of victory. The situation is barely better for Cathy Rédre-Bouzon, deputy La République En Marche (LRM) out of the 5 e district, which accuses almost 17 % delay on the candidate Nupes-LFI, Hendrik DAVI. Only the outgoing Claire Pitollat ​​(2 e

é>), under the threat of the Nuts, and the ex-Lrr Lionel Royer-Perreaut (6 e ), more Easy, come to the lead in their constituencies in the south of the city.

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