The first round of legislative elections in the 11th and 14th constituencies of Bouches-du-Rhône has delivered its verdict. As elsewhere, it is unfavorable to the candidates of the presidential majority which presented two outgoing deputies: Mohamed Laqhila in the 11th constituency and Anne-Laurence Petel in the 14th, both re-elected in 2022. They arrive in 3rd position and will have to choose between the maintenance or withdrawal for the second round. The national order expressed by Gabriel Attal is withdrawal to block the National Rally. But yesterday evening Mohamed Laqhila asked the candidate of the New Popular Front, who came in 2nd position, to withdraw. The second round of the legislative elections will be held next Sunday, July 7.
According to estimates from the prefectures, between 285 and 315 constituencies are in a triangular situation for the second round due to the strong rate of participation.
In the 14th, Gérault Verny, RN candidate, comes first in the 14th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône with 31.65% of the votes (21,734 votes). He is closely followed by Jean-David Ciot of the NFP, who received 29.40% of the votes (20,242 votes), and by outgoing MP Anne-Laurence Petel of the presidential party Ensemble, who obtained 28.91% of the votes ( 19,853 votes). The 14th district includes the cantons of Aix-en-Provence Centre, Aix-en-Provence Nord-Est (part not included in the 11th district), Peyrolles-en-Provence and Trets.
In the 11th constituency, the outgoing centrist deputy and member of the presidential majority, Mohamed Laqhila, ranked third with 26.28% of the votes, behind Marc Pena of the Union of the Left who obtained 27.54%, and Hervé Fabre -Aubrespy (RN) which comes first with 38.87%. Of the 93,649 registered on the electoral lists of the cantons of the 11th circo (Aix-en-Provence-Nord-Est, Aix-en-Provence-Sud-Ouest and Pennes-Mirabeau), 64,598 cast their vote .
In the 11th, Marc Pena (NFP) in the lead in Aix, the villages in the hands of the RN
In Aix, Pena and Ciot in the lead
In Aix, the candidate nominated by the New Popular Front and the Socialist Party, Marc Pena, managed to position himself in first place by a close margin (31.64%) against the National Rally of Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy (30.65%). . The outgoing candidate, Mohamed Laqhila is not far behind, with 29.70% of the votes cast.
In the other cantons of the 11th constituency, it is the RN candidate who garners the most votes. In Cabriès, Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy collects 40.46% of the votes cast (32.42% for Ensemble and 19.31% for the NFP); in Eguilles, the duel is tight between the RN (35.29%) and Ensemble (34.50%). Les Pennes-Mirabeau places the National Rally in a large advantage with 58.84% (19.02% for the NFP and 16.13% for Ensemble). In Septèmes-les-Vallons, Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy obtains 48.31%, far ahead of Marc Péna (34.35%) and Mohamed Laqhila (12.10%).
If we look at the results by municipality, the duels vary. In Aix-en-Provence, the socialist candidate nominated by the NFP, Jean-David Ciot is ahead of the candidate of the outgoing former presidential majority, Anne-Laurence Petel, at 34.24% against 31.88%. In Beaureceuil, it is an Ensemble – National Rally duo, Gérault Verny positions himself slightly behind Anne-Laurence Petel (33.82% against 32.36%), while Jean-David Ciot wins 23.03% of the votes cast. The same political trend is observed in the commune of Châteauneuf-le-Rouge, where Petel collects 36.54% of the votes, Verny 33.06% and Ciot 19.67%.
The National Rally is in first place in the race in the municipalities of Fuveau (35.68%), Jouques (42.56%), Meyrargues (37.92%), Peynier (36.82%), Peyrolles (40.75%), Puyloublier (39.16%), Rousset (37.31%), Saint-Paul-lès-Durance (55.42%) and Trets (44.59%).
Anne-Laurence Petel (Together), maintains control in the municipalities of Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon (56.98% against the RN, 20.93%), Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde (44.38% against the RN at 27.81%), Le Tholonet (37.78%) and Venelles (34.47% against the RN, 31.49%).
In his own commune, the mayor of Puy-Sainte-Réparade and NFP candidate, Jean-David Ciot, was beaten by the National Rally. Ciot collected 31.62% of the votes cast while Gérault Verny collected 36.79%. In Vauvenargues, he is ahead of Anne-Laurence Petel at 34.00% against 32.17%.
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