In Fenouillèdes, a few meters between two municipalities, the ballot boxes spoke in opposite ways.
In the second constituency of the Pyrénées-Orientales, Anaïs Sabatini representing the far-right party led by Jordan Bardella came first in the votes cast (54.98%) in the first round. Of the four outgoing National Rally deputies, she is the only one to be re-elected in this way.
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Facing her, the independent Marc Médina (20.45% of the votes cast and 14,257 votes) managed only one capture: Saint-Martin-de-Fenouillet (50 inhabitants in 2021). He collected 42.11% of the votes cast, or 16 votes. Strangely, the neighboring commune of Saint-Arnac (104 inhabitants in 2021) placed Anaïs Sabatini (RN) in pole position with 69.35% of the votes cast, or 43 votes. Her record in the entire constituency.
Marc Médina comments on this state of affairs: “If one day a political scientist can explain to me how people vote, I’m interested and I think we’ll have a good time. How can a village give itself to one political tendency and its neighbor, who experiences the same problems on a daily basis, to another? There are political mysteries to which my sixteen years of experience cannot answer.”
In this territory, the New Popular Front candidate, David Berrué, obtained 19.96% of the votes cast, Mercedes Garcia (Catalan Front) 1.92%, Brigitte Laurens (Reconquest!) 1.80% and Philippe Goiset (Workers’ Struggle) 0.89%. The constituency has 105,930 people registered on the electoral lists.
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