He was an atypical candidate in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, in the first constituency of Deux-Sèvres. Marc Gaillard (without label) announces this Thursday, June 27 that he is withdrawing from the race.
0% was the objective to achieve as soon as my candidacy was announced because no vote had to be missing to block
to the far right, he wrote in a press release.
I decided not to broadcast propaganda and to withdraw my candidacy today so as not to penalize the grouping of the left
continues the now ex-postulant, who claims to be a member of the Socialist Party (since May 2024, according to our sources).
The memory of René Gaillard
And to add, to the voters: The purpose of this investiture was to get to know you, to allow you to associate a face with a name and to perpetuate the memory of a wonderful man, whose surname I proudly bear, which some try to erase
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An allusion to René Gaillard, deputy mayor of Niort in the 1970s-1980s, who passed on to us values of mutual aid, tolerance and freedom, obviously with rules. Those of the Republic that we must constantly improve and enforce to maintain the right balance
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” The next time… “
Marc Gaillard had sowed trouble in the ranks of the Niort left, by claiming his supposed membership of the local PS and introducing himself as “Marc René Gaillard” – René is also my first name
assures the person concerned on social networks.
The former candidate assures: Next time will be very different. I will go to the end. I will now be a candidate in all future elections
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