The final list of candidates for the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, 2024 is now known. In Calvados, the first and sixth constituencies stand out with bets made by the presidential camp. Two bets whose results will be followed very closely, including by the Parisian staff.
In the first constituency, that of Caen West, the outgoing Macronist deputy, Fabrice Le Vigoureux, is not running for re-election. He decided to give way to the mayor of Caen and president of the urban community, Joël Bruneau, considering him “the best placed to ensure that the worst is countered”. The mayor therefore takes his responsibilities under the Miscellaneous Right label. Denouncing the alliance between Éric Ciotti and the National Rally (RN), he said “he cannot remain a spectator of the rise of extremes”, and will therefore give up his seat as mayor if he is elected deputy.
For this, however, he will have to do better than the four other candidates, starting with the RN candidate, Ludivine Daoudi, for whom this is the first candidacy, but also Emma Fourreau, candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP), just recently elected Member of the European Parliament at the age of 24. She was only 200 votes short of being elected in the previous legislative elections, in 2022. Let us also note the candidacy of Pierre Casevitz, teacher researcher and Lutte Ouvrière (LO) candidate in each of the legislative elections since 2002, and of Matéo Leloup, without label.
Not far from there, the 6th district, that of Vire-Evrecy, will also be the center of all attention. Former Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, outgoing deputy of the presidential majority, will indeed defend her seat against four candidates: Nicolas Calbrix (RN), Noé Gauchard (NFP), Pascale Georget (LO) and Lynda Lahalle (republican right), as well as three candidates without a label: Esteline Caillemer, Bérengère Lareynie and Philippe Ambourg.
Elsewhere, the leavers are all candidates
In the second constituency, that of Caen Est, it is another figure from the town hall of Caen who is launching. The deputy for commerce and crafts, Camille Brou, candidate from the right and the center, will challenge the outgoing socialist deputy Arthur Delaporte (NFP). But, here too, the RN candidate, Josseline Liban, could play spoilsport. The fourth candidate, Christophe Garcia, will defend the colors of Lutte Ouvrière, alongside two candidates without a label, Grégory Berkovicz and Cédric Bazincourt.
In the third constituency, that of Falaise and Lisieux, the outgoing Jérémie Patrier-Leitus (Horizons) will face on the right Nathalie Porte, vice-president of the region, Steven Mafiodo (Debout la France) and Édouard Sauvage (Reconquête). On his left are Michel Langevin (Workers’ Struggle), Olivier Truffaut (NFP), regional figure of the Socialist Party, as well as Thierry-Paul Valette (Fair Europe, center left).
In the fourth constituency, that of Côte Fleurie, the outgoing Christophe Blanchet, from the presidential majority, will be opposed to the RN candidate, Chantal Henry, to Sophie Gaugain (republican right), first vice-president of the region and mayor of Dozulé, or even to Pierre Mouraret (NFP) and Patrick Poirot-Bourdain (LO). Two uninitiated candidates will also run for the seat: Pascale Deutsch and François Buisson.
Finally, in the fifth constituency, Bayeux Bessin, the outgoing Bertrand Bouyx, also a member of the presidential majority, will have to get rid of the RN candidate Philippe Chapron, former director of the Battle of Normandy museum in Bayeux, and the mayor of Bernières -sur-Mer, Thomas Dupont-Federici (NFP), but also Cédric Nouvelot (union of the right and the center) and Isabelle Peltre (LO). Here again, two candidates without a label will be there: Jean-Alexis Géreux and Tony Desclos.
