The former journalist won, Sunday during the second round of the legislative elections, facing the candidate of the national rally in a constituency where Marine Le Pen had arrived in the lead in the presidential election.
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The outgoing deputy of the 1st district of the Somme, François Ruffin, was elected for a second term in the National Assembly, Sunday June 19. The former journalist, a personality with a view to the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (Nuts), collected 57.01 % of the votes cast in the second round, against 42.99 % for the candidate of the National Rally, Nathalie Ribeiro-Billet. The order of arrival in the first round was respected.
Under the banner of the Nuts, Mr. Ruffin led a campaign without really exploiting the image of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, in a territory where Marine Le Pen came first during the presidential election. “Here, the clip is not a campaign argument,” the candidate told the world to a second term, at the beginning of June, who admitted that he had no guarantee to win.
“They have money, we have people!”
At the end of 2016, Mr. Ruffin had already succeeded in constituting a start of union of the left around his candidacy. The director of the Documentary Merci Boss! was supported by rebellious France (LFI), the French Communist Party and Europe Ecology-Les Verts. He had been elected after a significant catch-up of votes in the interwar period: accusing 4,000 votes behind in the first round against the former socialist labeled La République en Marche Nicolas Dumont, François Ruffin had imposed himself in the second with 55.97 % of the vote.
Both close to the LFI group while standing out regularly, participating assiduously in the regional meetings of Mr. Mélenchon during the presidential campaign after several weeks of ambiguity, as for his support for the candidate, François Ruffin Created a slightly outward political space from the rest of the left. While continuing to make documentaries – standing women! In 2021 – and to publish books – at least one per year since the start of his mandate – to promote his political ideas.
At the National Assembly and in the media, the former editor -in -chief of the newspaper Fakir operated his moult as elected nation by multiplying operations to make visible the most precarious professions – cleaning agents, workers of industry. Shortly after his election, he was sanctioned for having held a speech under the perch adorned with a jersey of Olympique Eaucourt, Watercourt-sur-Somme (Somme) football club, to support a bill aimed at Tax large sports transfers. Throughout the duration of the movement of “yellow vests”, he positioned himself as one of the most virulent criticisms of the ordering strategy adopted, in particular, by the Paris police headquarters. This year, the slogan “They have money, we have people!” Was all his campaign trips.