Gérald Darmanin will finally face Jérôme Garcia, LR candidate nominated by the national investiture commission, in the 10th constituency in the North.
The Les Républicains party finally nominated a candidate against Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in his constituency of Tourcoing for the legislative elections on June 30, a decision taken by national authorities but contested locally.
Gérald Darmanin, who was elected with 57.5% of the votes in 2022, followed by an anti-speciesist Nupes candidate, Leslie Mortreux, will face three right-wing and far-right candidates in the 10th constituency of the North.
Michèle Tabarot, president of the national nomination commission, indicated Monday that LR had indeed nominated a candidate in the constituency of Gérald Darmanin, in the person of Jérôme Garcia.
In a press release, the commission recalls that “the investiture decisions (…) are their decision and not that of the federation presidents”.
The local party authorities in the North had initially indicated on Monday that this candidate, nominated in 2022 against Mr. Darmanin, was this time a dissident. Jérôme Garcia had accused Sunday on X Gérald Darmanin, former LR, and the local leaders of the Republicans of having “negotiated to have no LR candidate facing Mr. Darmanin”.
“A combination of circumstances”
According to the LR du Nord federation, a candidate had initially been nominated before giving up running, and Jérôme Garcia, who had launched a campaign despite local party authorities, was finally nominated.
“I take note of the commission’s decision, but it is not my personal choice,” indicated the president of LR in the North, Antoine Sillani, believing that the selected candidate is not loyal to his party.
In addition to Jérôme Garcia, Gérald Darmanin will be opposed, as in 2022, to an RN candidate, the deputy departmental delegate Bastien Verbrugghe, and to a Reconquest candidate. Two other candidates initially invested by LR in the North have given up running.
One in the 11th constituency, where a candidate from the presidential majority will be opposed to the outgoing socialist deputy Roger Vicot, nominated by the New Popular Front. The other in the 13th, until now held by a Macronist deputy, where LR and the presidential majority have given way to a socialist mayor who is running against an RN candidate and a Rebel invested by the New Popular Front.
Finally, neither LR nor the presidential majority nor the New Popular Front presented a candidate against the outgoing Liot deputy Benjamin Saint Huile, ex-PS narrowly elected in 2022 against an RN candidate.
