The secretary of state in charge of the sea, candidate in the 2nd constituency, faced the various left candidate Christian Baptiste on Sunday.
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It is the first member of the government of Elisabeth Borne who failed to be re -elected Sunday, June 19 in the second round of the legislative elections. The secretary of state in charge of the sea, Justine Benin, was beaten in the second round in the 2nd district of Guadeloupe, against the various left candidate Christian Baptiste, who had the support of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (NUPES) , according to the prefecture of Guadeloupe. She only obtained 41.35 % of the votes against 58.65 % for her opponent.
M Benin had to win Sunday to stay in the Borne government because, as in 2017, members of the government candidates for deputation will have to resign in the event of failure. In the government of Elisabeth Borne, Justine Benin is one of the fifteen ministers and secretaries of state appointed Friday, May 20, who are presented in the legislative elections, including the Prime Minister. Defeat by the mayor of Sainte-Anne, she will therefore have to resign.
The outgoing deputy, invested by the presidential coalition together! had however obtained 31.31 % of the votes in the first round, Sunday June 12, and ahead of 4.5 points Mr. Baptiste (26.78 % of the votes).
anti-macron vote
Candidate under the colors of the presidential majority, the elected Democratic Movement (Modem) is very anchored locally in her constituency , where she was elected in 2017. Former vice -president of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe – under the socialist majority of Victorin Lurel, L ‘Former Overseas Minister -, elected deputy of 2 e district of Guadeloupe in 2017, under a various left label before approaching the modem, Justine Benin defended her record during the campaign : Three hundred and sixty-eight amendments deposited including fifty adopted, and fourteen published parliamentary reports. She praised the law of April 2021 on the governance of water to Guadeloupe, the report of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on chlordecone, of which she was the rapporteur, in 2019, but also a subject of medical cooperation with Cuba, among others.
The Secretary of State was able to suffer from the Fort Anti-Macron vote which had expressed itself in the presidential election. The candidate of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had then totaled 56.1 % of the votes in the first round, while the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, had gathered 69.6 % of the votes in the second round against to Emmanuel Macron.