Legislative: Roussel, Beaune, Cahuzac… These figures eliminated in the 1st round

They will no longer sit in the National Assembly. The day after the first round of the legislative elections, which saw the National Rally and its allies come first in the poll, several figures of French political life were eliminated in the first round, failing to collect 12.5% ​​of the votes. votes allowing them to qualify for the second round, which must take place on Sunday July 7. Among them, a well-known figure on the left: the boss of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, who was running in the 20th constituency in the North.

This historic bastion of the left saw a navy blue wave sweep through, with a victory in the first round for the RN candidate, who won 50.3% of the votes. “Still standing”Fabien Roussel, elected since 2017, called on his supporters to “remain dignified in the face of what is happening in France and what is happening here, in our region, in our Valenciennes, measure what is happening in the country and always fight to repair what arouses the anger of our fellow citizens” .

Former ministers left in the first round

Another elimination: that of the former Minister of Europe and Transport, Clément Beaune, beaten by the socialist Emmanuel Grégoire, elected in the first round in the 7th constituency of the capital. Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy mayor of Paris won the election with 50.87% of the vote, against 32.78% for Clément Beaune, a figure of the left wing of Macron’s party.

The former minister targeted by rape complaints, Damien Abad, was also eliminated this Sunday, in the 5th constituency of Aine. Just like Jérôme Cahuzac, also a former minister, who missed his return to politics after his conviction for tax fraud six years ago, by being eliminated in the 3rd constituency of Lot-et-Garonne.

Other big names managed to qualify, but found themselves in an unfavorable vote in their constituency: François Ruffin (New Popular Front) in the 1st constituency of the Somme, clearly left behind by the RN candidate, or even Charles de Courson, from the LIOT group and oldest active MP, came in second position in the 5th constituency of Marne, behind, again, the National Rally candidate.

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Finally, outside the political sphere, other well-known names were, unsurprisingly, eliminated in the first round: Dieudonné only obtained barely more than 1% of the votes in the 1st constituency of Guadeloupe, when Francis Lalanne came last, with 0.59% of the vote, in the island’s 3rd constituency.