2024 legislative elections in Sarthe. Update on the 2nd district: candidates, alliances, program

The elections anticipated legislative will take place on Sundays June 30 and July 7, 2024.

In Sarthe, it is therefore in the five constituencies that citizens are called to the polls.

The outgoing MP, Marietta Karamanli, is running for the left

In the second constituency (Le Mans, Bouloire, Montfort-le-Gesnois), the outgoing MP Marietta Karamanli announced that he would be running for re-election with the mayor of Changé as his alternate, Yves-Marie Hervé. She is the candidate of the New Popular Front.

In June 2022during the previous parliamentary election, she had been elected in the second round under the NUPES label with a score of 63.06% (20,399 votes) against Angéline Furet, the RN candidate who had obtained 36.94% (11,952 votes).

It should be noted that this second round was marked by a high abstention rate : 56.82%, or 47,316 of the 83,728 registered on the electoral lists of the constituency did not turn out.

Marietta Karamanli, 59, has been a member of parliament for the constituency for four terms. In 2007, she won the seat from Jean-Marie Geveaux (UMP). This teacher born in Athens (Greece) is city ​​councilordu Mans since 1989 . She has dual nationality.

An LR-RN alliance with François Fèvre as candidate

In this constituency, the Republicans are forming an alliance with the National Rally. Aged 32, François Fèvre,former supporter of François Fillon and former communications director of Robert Ménard, arrived in Sarthe in 2021 to take over the management of RCF Sarthe before creating his company.

He was invested by Eric Ciotti whose decision to ally himself with the RN created a shock wave within his party.

His substitute is Angeline Furet former candidate of the far-right party during the 2022 legislative elections and recently elected Member of the European Parliament on the RN list.

Lutte Ouvrière: the 2022 candidates once again invested

Thomas Hubert will be the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière in the 2nd constituency of Sarthe with Armelle Bretonas a replacement. A 55-year-old teacher, party activist since 1987, he opposes the increase in the army budget and deplores the increasing deterioration of services publics.

If the candidate believes that the extreme right is “a mortal danger” particularly for immigrant workershe also considers that “the left and the right have succeeded each other in having the same policy of service to the big bosses”. He denounces the “anti-worker policies” carried out by the right, the left and the government of Emmanuel Macron.

Samuel Chevallier, UDI candidate

Samuel Chevallierdepartmental councilor of Sarthe where he is president of the employment, integration and housing commission, is a candidate in the 2nd constituency of Sarthe. He is replaced by Patrick Desmazières, current mayor of Champagné.

“I am committed to bringing together citizens who want neither the extreme right bloc nor the extreme left bloc,” underlines the man who was mayor of Ruaudin from 2014 to 2020. “The voters see clearly that the brouhaha is not a solution. I call on them to vote for a deputy who will protect the Republic! »

A candidate who withdrew from the campaign

Clément Cheuret, clerk, is also part of the list of candidates. However, he calls not to vote for him and has withdrawn from the campaign. He explained to us the reasons for this change of heart.

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