After the invalidation by the Constitutional Council of three elections in June 2022 in Charente, in the Marne and in Pas-de-Calais, the national rally loses a seat, the left wins one and the majority is zero. .
by Mariama Darame
The extreme right loses a seat, the new popular, ecological and social union (Nuts) wins an elected official, and the presidential camp is equal. At the end of the second round of the three partial legislative elections organized on Sunday January 29 in the 1 era district of Charente, the 2 e district of the Marne and the 8 E TRUST OF PAS-DE-CALAIS, two new deputies enter the Palais-Bourbon.
In the 1 era district of Charente, the candidate LFI-NUPPES René Pilato came at the top of the votes cast (50.99 %) against the outgoing candidate of the presidential majority, Thomas Mesnier ( 49.01 %). Spokesperson for the Horizons party by Edouard Philippe, Mr. Mesnier had been able to count on the support of the former Prime Minister, who had moved to Angoulême to support him.
But it is a tight ballot – with a gap of 474 votes – and a very low participation (30.21 %) which were right for the ambitions of this emergency doctor by profession, former general rapporteur of the security budget social. The Charentais preferred him a professor of Angoulême mathematics who campaigned against pension reform. “A new LFI deputy to fight retirement at 64,” said Mr. Pilato, giving an appointment to his voters on January 31 “in the street and the assembly then”.
Very strong abstention
Nevertheless, the presidential camp wins a new recruit in the person of Laure Miller in the 2 e district of the Marne. This lawyer and former member of the Les Républicains (LR) party rallied to Renaissance faced the elected official from the National Rally (RN), Anne-Sophie Frigout.
In June 2022, Laure Miller had suffered from a macronist dissent in this Rémois bastion of the right, before an elimination in the first round for litigious bulletins. Six months later, the macronist candidate won with 51.8 %of the votes against the extreme right (48.2 %), against the background of strong abstention (74.83 %). With four points behind her opponent in the first round, Laure Miller benefited from a postponement from the votes of candidate Nupes, Victorien Pâté, who had called to give no voice to the RN.
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