During this second round of the legislative elections, he obtained 64.63 % of the votes against 35.37 % for the “rebellious” candidate of the new ecological and social popular union, Elsa Bourgeard, in the 1st district of the Lot.
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If the group of deputies of the Republicans (LR) in the National Assembly is likely to be less provided for the next five years, the number two of the party, Aurélien Pradié, easily retained its seat, Sunday, June 19. During this second round of the legislative elections, he obtained 64.63 % of the votes against 35.37 % for the “rebellious” candidate of the new ecological and social popular union, Elsa Bourgeard, in the 1st district of Lot.
In the first round, the outgoing deputy had obtained 45.46 % of the votes against 22.26 % for his opponent. She was able to count in the second round on the postponement of part of the votes of the socialist dissident Rémi Branco who had finished third and collected 16.72 % of the votes. But that was not enough.
After the first round, Mr. Pradié had explained his score, and the resistance of LR in these legislative elections, by their “local anchoring”. “We talk a lot about local anchoring, it is not a detail, he had advanced. This is what saves a certain idea of politics, which is also a matter of human relations.”
“Break with sarkozysm”
Elected to everyone’s surprise in 2017, Mr. Pradié, supporter of a social right and a break with the Sarkozysm within his party, consolidates his anchoring in the lot, where Valérie Pécresse (LR) n ‘ had obtained that 5.16 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential election.
At the beginning of May, the secretary general of the LR party had called his political family to “break with the Sarkozysm” in an interview at point . According to him, “since 2012, the French right has been weighed down by the weight of all those who had failed at various electoral deadlines. It is time to cut the strings.” In this interview, he calls his party “to become a again popular right “. “The history of the French right, since General de Gaulle, has always been to be interested in the social question before the identity concern,” he argued. For the rest, he calls LR to rely “on the young guard”, of which he is one of the faces. All the more after his comfortable re -election in the lot.