In the 5ᵉ district of Seine-Saint-Denis, the boss of the UDI, deputy since 2002, lost in front of the “rebellious”, candidate under the banner of the cloud.
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Deputy since 2002, centrist pillar of Seine-Saint-Denis, the boss of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI), Jean-Christophe Lagarde, was swept away by the wave of the new Ecological and Social Popular Union (NUPES) losing, Sunday, June 19, in the second round of the legislative elections against the “rebellious” Raquel Garrido, in the 5 e district of the Seine-Saint-Denis. The head of the UDI recognized its .
Raquel Garrido had thwarted the forecasts by leading the first round of the legislative elections, with 37.9 % of the vote, against 33.41 % for Mr. Lagarde. “This victory of the first round was unexpected in the Lagarde camp, which thought to be screwed on a throne in an irremovable way, but we are not in a monarchy,” was then delighted M Me Garrido. At the controllers for twenty years, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, 54, delighted in 2002 this district of the Seine-Saint-Denis anchored on the left.
The president of the UDI had previously seized the city of Drancy (72,000 inhabitants), in 2001, turning this historic communist bastion to the center, today led by his wife, Aude Lagarde. For Mr. Lagarde, the result of his rival was “expected” in view “of the good scores of Mélenchon” in Seine-Saint-Denis in the first round of the presidential election. Voters largely acclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon (49.09 %) in front of the outgoing president Emmanuel Macron (20.27 %) and the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (11.88 %).
“Label voting” 
for Mr. Lagarde, the score of his opponent of the Nuts in the first round was “a label vote of an extreme left parachute that has no reserve of voice”. According to his “calculations”, he intended to recover part of the 8 % of the voters of the presidential majority, whose candidate arrived behind the RN (9.64 %) in the first round.
For M me garrido, the objective was to capture the abstainers, who culminated at 63.5 % of the registered in the first round, more than 10 points above the national average ( 52.49 %). “Democracy only works if everyone is there. Ultrariches thrive on the abstention of working -class neighborhoods, on the abstention of youth”, regretted M me Garrido, “still politicized “.
With her parents, belonging to the UltraGauche movement, she fled Chile after the 1973 coup. Before the second round, she aspired to “mobilize the workers’ women of Seine-Saint-Denis who Take their metro every morning to clean up the chic districts, to take care of the children of others, the elderly. I want to allow them to have a retirement at 60 “. Successful bet for the “rebellious” media.