Negotiations, boondoggles and indecisions are not only the fate of the left in the Pyrénées-Orientales. With less than two days before the maximum deadline for submitting candidacies, this Friday evening, all the candidates for the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, 2024 are still not known. But the casting is becoming clearer. And grows over the hours.
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1time constituency
Annabelle Brunet, departmental advisor, was one of the first to embrace her ambitions. She will leave with the label Democrats the centrists. To bring together the broadest possible Republican arc, the presidential majority and the Republicans had suggested that they would not put forward candidates. That was until Friday morning. Annabelle Brunet will finally have to face Christophe Euzet, the candidate for the presidential majority. Deputy Act together from Hérault until 2022, this Perpignan native teaches at the law school on the Mailly campus. But, politically, he was rather discreet in recent years in the Pyrénées-Orientales. He justifies his return “by the desire to release the RN“. Some see in this unexpected candidacy slow-moving ambitions for 2026. On her right, Annabelle Brunet will also have Loïc Moskowiez, candidate for Les Républicains. A young activist in his thirties motivated for a first electoral experience.
On the far right, outgoing MP Sophie Blanc could face a Reconquest candidate. Unless there is a national agreement between the two parties. As in all other districts of the department.
The new Popular Front logically chose the Insoumis Francis Daspe. In 2022, he gathered 7,659 voters in the first round, but missed the second by 293 votes.
2e constituency
The mayor of Torreilles, Marc Médina, will be a good candidate in this constituency, without a label. Here, the presidential majority and the Republicans have left him a boulevard. At least that was necessary to oppose Anaïs Sabatini, the outgoing RN deputy who won more than 60% of the votes in the second round in 2022. Marc Médina has a major challenge. He knows it : “But all week, during consultations (he is a doctor, Editor’s note), I have heard patients tell me that they do not recognize themselves in anything. And that they would vote blank or abstain. Given the RN scores, this little music scared me and made me decide“. He will be in tandem with the mayor of Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet, Jacques Bayona.
Unsurprisingly, the new Popular Front sent an Ecologist candidate to this constituency. David Berrué will try to weigh in. Without weakening Marc Medina too much.
3e constituency
It’s the return match. As in 2022, Sandrine Such-Dogor (RN) and Insoumise Nathalie Cullell (new Popular Front) will face each other. In the first round, only 156 votes separated the two candidates, in favor of the RN. The gap widened by almost 3,000 votes in the second round. This constituency also observes the return of the former Macronist MP (2017-2022) Laurence Gayte. Very discreet since the end of her mandate as deputy, she said she was awakened by “the RN risk, we needed someone who knew the challenges of this territory. That’s my case“. She will enter the arena with the logo of the presidential majority.
4e constituency
Theater of cacophony on the left, number 4e constituency of the outgoing deputy RN Michèle Martinez stirs up desire. After endless negotiations, it was the departmental secretary of the PS, Julien Baraillé, who was chosen to carry the voice of the new Popular Front. Totally disunited front here. The mayor of Argelès-sur-Mer, president of the Albères Côte Vermeille Illibéris community of communes, did not receive the support hoped for on the left. Disappointed, he withdraws. “I really thought my application was legitimate“, he accuses. His opinion was shared among several elected officials on the left and right. The presidential majority decided to bet on a new recruit. Patricia Nadal, opposition municipal councilor in Argelès-sur-Mer and member of the departmental office Renaissance Pyrénées-Orientales, will be on the starting line The Republicans will send a candidate who is not a headliner Philippe Romain, retired from the hospital civil service, will carry the LR bulletin in this constituency.
