So here we go again for… two rounds. The SQY territory is affected by six different constituencies (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 10th, 11th and 12th). 36 candidates declared themselves, including most of the outgoing deputies. In SQY as elsewhere, the results of the European elections of June 9 redistributed the political landscape. It is therefore difficult to navigate between alliances and misalliances, and a National Assembly considered by some to be too disconnected from the territories since the non-cumulation of mandates. Despite everything, the legislative elections also remain a story of men and women and not just a party or program vote.
A historic election
And in a particularly short campaign, everyone tries to make their voice heard. Like Laurent Mazaury (UDI), candidate for the right and center in the 11th constituency (where the towns of Élancourt, Trappes and La Verrière are located, among others), who felt that “the time had come for elected officials on the ground to can take back the voice of citizens, particularly in Yvelines.” “As it is a candidacy that comes from the territories and the experience that we have acquired after three mandates […]”, this is what allows us, in my opinion, to be able to make effective decisions within the National Assembly, unlike sometimes deputies, among others in the outgoing majority, who were far too out of touch,” adds notably the one who is also assistant for culture at Élancourt, and vice-president for sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games at SQY. It is developing a program in three areas: purchasing power, security, and “the education of our children”.
Laurent Mazaury, who says he is “in the fight against all extremes”, is running in a constituency in the hands of the left since 2022 and the election of William Martinet (LFI). The latter is a candidate for succession under the label of the New Popular Front. ” We have […] need you again because the stakes in these legislative elections are enormous: the worst is if the far-right wins […] and the best, because facing the far right, La France Insoumise managed to bring together all the forces of the left and ecology to build a real Popular Front,” he explains in a video on his page Facebook. He promises, if he is re-elected, to repeal the pension reform “which stole two years of our lives”, or to put in place “the freezing of the prices of energy and basic necessities, the increase in the minimum wage, the increase in wages so that people can live with dignity.”
The National Rally (RN) believes for its part that “France finds itself at the time of ultimate clarification”, going so far as to speak of “the irreversible disappearance of France” and considers that they are the “only ones capable of saving our country”, we can read in particular in a press release from the Yvelin federation of the far-right party. The RN presents candidates in all the constituencies of Yvelines, but some under the RN/LR label, resulting from an alliance between LR elected officials and the Lepéniste party, an alliance opposed by the LR federation of Yvelines. We therefore find LR candidates facing RN/LR candidates in certain constituencies.
For the former presidential majority, renamed Ensemble pour la République, “faced with the extreme right whose benchmarks have not changed and which would ruin our country, faced with the left subjected to LFI and corrupted by anti-Semitism, we we are united and together present 12 candidates each rooted in their territory. United for our department to guarantee on June 30 and July 7, 12 solid, competent and sincerely invested deputies”, estimate in a press release Aurore Bergé, Jean-Baptiste Hamonic, Arnaud Péricard and Marc Tourelle, who represent in Yvelines the different parties constituting this union, namely respectively Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons and UDI. Aurore Bergé is also a candidate in the 10th constituency, where Coignières and Maurepas are located in particular.
Outgoing MP in the 1st constituency, also in the Ensemble pour la République camp Charles Rodwell (Renaissance) is counting on the support of heavyweights in the department such as senator Michel Laugier (UDI) and ex-senator Nicolas About, both former mayors of Montigny-le-Bretonneux, and the current mayor of Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Lorrain Merckaert (DVD). “We have been working hand in hand for two years to serve the residents of our constituency,” he assures on his Facebook page. Facing him, Sébastien Ramage (LFI), also a municipal councilor in Guyancourt, is already a candidate in 2022 (he came 2nd with 36.69% of the votes in 2022, beaten by Charles Rodwell) who underlines that there “is today only one alternative: the New Popular Front”.
In the 3rd constituency, Béatrice Piron (Renaissance), outgoing MP, returns there, recalling her “unwavering commitment to our territory”. She will notably face her Othman Nasrou, president of the LR federation of Yvelines, who intends to defend “an independent right capable of proposing a real path to recover the country”, and this without an alliance with the RN, which he strongly denounced.
Likewise, in the 2nd constituency, Jean-Noël Barrot (MoDem) asks “once again for your confidence in the face of the surge in populist fever”. And in this fight against populism, Karl Olive (Renaissance) is also returning to the 12th constituency. “I am going to throw all my strength into the legislative elections to meet this unprecedented challenge in our history,” assures the former mayor of Poissy in a campaign leaflet.
The candidates in the constituencies of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
1st constituency, including Guyancourt
and Montigny-le-Bretonneux
• Charles Rodwell (Together for the Republic/Renaissance)
• Guillaume Carlier (Various)
• Jean-Loup Leroux (Workers’ Struggle)
• Sabine Clément (Reconquest!)
• Arnaud Poulain (The Republicans)
• Sébastien Ramage (New Popular Front)
• Anne Jacqmin (RN)
2nd constituency, therefore Magny-les-Hameaux
and Voisins-le-Bretonneux
• Jean-Noël Barrot (Together for the Republic/MoDem)
• Pascal Thévenot (New Energy/LR)
• Maïté Carrive-Bedouani (New Popular Front/EELV)
• Gaëtan Brault (RN)
• Philippe Loire (Reconquest!)
• Marielle Saulnier (Workers’ struggle)
3rd constituency, including Villepreux
and Les Clayes-sous-Bois
• Béatrice Piron (Together for the Republic/Renaissance)
• Thomas Ciano (New Popular Front/PS)
• Valentin Salvino (LR) (Alliance RN/LR)
• Olivier Le Coq (Reconquest!)
• Othman Nasrou (LR)
• Olivier Augustin (Workers’ struggle)
• Jérémy Bizet, (France Ecology)
10th circumscription, including Coignières and Maurepas
• Aurore Bergé (Together for the Republic/Renaissance)
• Cédric Briolais (New Popular Front/LFI)
• Thomas du Chalard (RN)
• Olivier Gousseau (Reconquest!)
• Gaël Barbotin (LR)
• Hélène Janisset (Workers’ struggle)
11th constituency, including Elancourt,
La Vérrière and Trappes
• William Martinet (New Popular Front/LFI)
• Victoria Doucet (RN)
• Nathalie Machuca (Reconquest!)
• Laurent Mazaury (UDI) (investiture LR)
• Patrick Planque (Workers’ struggle)
12th constituency, including Plaisir
• Karl Olive (Together for the Republic/Renaissance)
• Christophe Massiaux (New Popular Front/EELV)
• Jean-Louis Mettelet (RN)
• Bruno Jay (Reconquest!)
• Jean-Pierre Mercier (Workers’ struggle)
CREDIT PHOTO 1 : ILLUSTRATION
CREDIT PHOTO 2 : ARCHIVES
