Thomas Mesnier (Horizons), Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) and Bertrand Petit (PS-NUPPES) came at the top of this new ballot, Sunday, marked by a strong abstention.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
After seeing their election canceled by the Constitutional Council due to irregularities in very tight elections, the three outgoing deputies Bertrand Petit (Pas-de-Calais), Anne-Sophie Frigout (Marne) and Thomas Mesnier (Charente ) came out at the top of the first round of the new ballot, Sunday January 22, against a background of strong abstention. The second round of these elections will take place on January 29.
- in Charente, Thomas Mesnier (Horizons) on the elbow with René Pilato (LFI)
In the first district of Charente, which includes the prefecture, Angoulême, the margin is again very tight (forty-two deviations of gap) between the candidate of the presidential majority and spokesperson Thomas Mesnier (35.54 % of the votes cast) and the representative of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts), the “Insoumis” René Pilato (35.36 %), after a first round marked by a very low participation (28 , 76 %). “Nothing is done. We continue!”, Reacted Mr. Mesnier in a tweet . The key will be the postponement of the votes of the National Rally (RN), which obtained 14.8 % of the vote on Sunday. In the second round last year, the emergency doctor had ahead of Mr. Pilato of only twenty-four bulletins.
Thank you!
Nothing is done.
We continue ! https://t.co/otTy7lo8zd
- Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) is ahead of Laure Miller (Ensemble) in the Marne
In the second district of the Marne, comprising several cantons of Reims, the outgoing deputy Anne-Sophie Frigout (RN) arrives in first place with 34.80 % of the votes (+ 12.82 points compared to the first round in June). The candidate of the united presidential majority, Laure Miller, also progresses and manages to climb in the second round, with 30 % of the votes (+ 8.77 points). In June, she had been eliminated in the first round, her electorate was torn between her and the ex-deputy Aina Kuric (various centers), who presented herself in dissident and has since withdrew. Arrived third (16.17 %), the candidate of the Nuts, Victorian Pâté, is eliminated. “The one and only dam that counts is that against Macron and his unfair pension reform”, launched the candidate RN on Twitter in the aftermath of the ballot. In this constituency, 76 % of voters did not go to the polling stations.
- Bertrand Petit (Nuts) is ahead of Auguste Evrard (RN) in Pas-de-Calais
In the eighth district of Pas-de-Calais (Saint-Omer and surroundings), the outgoing deputy Bertrand Petit-related PS and invested by the Nutples after having a dissident candidacy-arrives very widely in mind with 46 , 14 %of the votes (+ 23.60 points), against the candidate RN Auguste Evrard (23.97 %, – 3.49 points), in a first round also marked by a strong abstention (70.39 %). The candidate of the presidential majority, Benoit Potterie (Horizons), is eliminated, with a score of 21.17 %. In June, the voices of the left were divided in the first round between Mr. Petit (22.54 %) and the former candidate of the Nutpes Simon Roussel (15.75 %), who did not present his candidacy .
In the second round, the socialist had won with 55.82 % of the votes, allowing the left to reconquer this former fief, in a department where six out of twelve districts had been won by the RN. His election had been invalidated due to the choice of his substitute, René Hocq, who was ineligible because already replacing a senator.