Faced with an RN who dreams of conquering the entire department, an update on the candidates and the forces present by constituency.
One RN MP in the 2017-2022 legislature, four from 2022 to 2024… and how many on July 7? Will Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s party succeed in conquering all six constituencies in Gard thanks to the dissolution? Will the union of the left or the heirs of the outgoing majority be able to slow the wave? The point by constituency.
1st constituency (Nîmes-Beaucaire)
In the first constituency of Gard, Yoann Gillet (RN) beat the outgoing Macronist MP Françoise Dumas in 2022, in the second round. It is the Nîmes opposition MP Valérie Rouverand (Renaissance – Ensemble) who will this time wear the colors of the majority. Beaucairois municipal opponent Charles Menard (LFI), already a candidate in 2022, was chosen by the New Popular Front. In 2022, Charles Menard obtained 23.93% of the votes cast, failing in third position. A score which, at the time, did not allow us to maintain a triangular position. Loumy Bourghol (LR) is for the first time a candidate for the LR. Isabelle Leclerc represents Lutte Ouvrière.
2nd constituency (Camargue-Vaunage)
Can Nicolas Meizonnet (RN) be dethroned from his seat as MP? The matter seems difficult, as the latter, who had first recovered Gilbert Collard’s seat in 2020, was comfortably elected in 2022 (56.53 against 43.47, in the second round, for Yvan Lachaud). His opponent having, this time, thrown in the towel, it is Sophie Pellegrin-Ponsole who is running under the Horizons label, defending herself well from being the heir to Emmanuel Macron. But Meizonnet should especially be wary of the left-wing union which is this time embodied not by an unknown LFI as in 2022, but by the socialist Katy Guyot, an elected representative from Vauvert and the region well established in Camargue. Enough to worry him? Also candidates: Catherine Bolle (LR), Véronique Jullian (Ecology in the center) and Stéphane Manson (far left).
3rd constituency (Bagnols-Villeneuve)
In 2022, as for the first constituency, the outgoing deputy Anthony Cellier, representing the presidential majority, was beaten in the second round by an RN: Pascale Bordes (51.32% against 48.68%). And there too, he is no longer a candidate. For the centre-right, it is Christian Baume, deputy from Bagnolais, who is running under the colours of Horizons. The left is once again embodied by the communist Sabine Oromi, who this time hopes to take advantage of the momentum of the New Popular Front to get past the first round. But Pascale Bordes, for her part, intends to consolidate her position after the European elections. The young Villeneuve LR Florent Grau will be a candidate for deputy for the first time. Valéry Fourmi will represent LO and Christophe Prévost is registered as a regionalist.
4th constituency (Alès-Pont Saint-Esprit)
Newly arrived in the region, Pierre Meurin (RN) had won the fourth constituency of Gard from the outgoing majority in 2022. He had beaten the Cévennes socialist Arnaud Bord (54.16% against 45.84%) in the second round, who had not benefited from Republican support from those defeated in the first round. There are only five candidates this year. Pierre Meurin again, who hopes to take root in this motley constituency, straddling the Cévennes and Gard-rhodanien. Arnaud Bord again, who easily obtained the investiture of the New Popular Front. Martinoise Nadia El Okki, who is a candidate for Renaissance-Ensemble, and Alésian elected official Pierre Martin, for Les Républicains, hope to play the party poopers. Jérôme Garcia is once again a LO candidate.
5th constituency (Cévennes)
A historic left-wing bastion, the fifth constituency of Gard (Cévennes, from Alès to Vigan) is closely followed at the national level. In 2022, Michel Sala, candidate of Nupes (LFI) beat RN Jean-Marie Launay (53% against 47%). Will it hold up again two years later when the RN did well in the Europeans? He can count on the hesitations, on the far right, concerning the candidate to present. It first involved the Ciottist Emmanuel Espanol, who was quickly dismissed. It is therefore a Savoyard, Alexandre Allegret-Pilot who will wear the LR (Ciotti canal) – RN colors in Cévennes. More established, Léa Boyer will represent the Gaullist-leaning Les Républicains, for her third candidacy on the circo. Catherine Daufès-Roux, who was a majority deputy (2021-2022) following the resignation of Olivier Gaillard, will seek to recover her chair. Lawyer Nordine Tria (without label) is the surprise guest of the ballot. Agnès Olinet represents LO.
6th constituency (Nîmes-Uzès)
Philippe Berta was the last deputy of the presidential majority in Gard. Not a candidate, he is handing over to Aurélien Colson, a Modem like him, and elected in Redessan. The latter will have a lot to do to contain his opponents on the left, as well as on the far right. On the left, Nicolas Cadène is running under the label Les écologistes-Nouveau Front populaire. During the 2022 election, he came out on top in the first round before being beaten in the second (52.17% for Berta against 47.83%). For the RN, Sylvie Josserand hopes to do better than the previous candidate, Laurence Gardet, and get past the first round. Unlike the previous election, she will not have a Reconquête candidate in her wake… Clément Stévant, 23, is running his first campaign for deputy for the LR. Laura Affortit of the Mouvement pour les animaux and Aïcha Terbèche of LO are also candidates.
