Mohamed Laqhila will not be a deputy for a new term in the Pays d’Aix sector. The outgoing Modem deputy, a supporter of the presidential majority, announced this Tuesday morning that he “withdraws from second round“. Mohamed Laqhila arrived in 3rd position after the first round (26.28% of the votes) behind the RN Hervé Fabre-Aubrespy (38.87%) and the PS candidate of the New Popular Front Marc Pena (27.54%).
Mohamed Laqhila accuse only 793 votes apart with the candidate of the left, whom he half-heartedly criticizes for remaining despite his second place. “Although qualified for the second round and despite my appeal through the press and by telephone to Marc Pena, he persists in his desire to maintain his position“, writes Mohamed Laqhila in a press release, then affirming that he will not be “the one who will elect the extreme right in the Pays d’Aix“. “Therefore, I will not run in the second round of this election and leave Marc Pena responsible for his choice and its consequences.“, concludes Mohamed Laqhila.
At the end of the first round this Sunday, the PS / New Popular Front candidate Marc Pen had called on Mohamed Laqhila to withdraw, saying: a democrat, a republican, a man born in Morocco, the son of a mason raised by his work and his courage (…) how could Mohamed maintain himself knowing that the RN program (…) seems to me incompatible with the man I know.”
