« My candidacy is the only candidacy in the Republican arc. » Those who thought they would discourage Audrey Dufeu from staying in the second round are disappointed. The Renaissance candidate, who made a surprise comeback, rather successful in light of her defeat in 2022 and the rejection of Macronism, considers herself perfectly legitimate in the three-way race she is causing.
« We hear a little music to discredit me, I am especially consistent with my commitments to block two political apparatchiks, who are taking the constituency in a vice. Mathias Tavel, a Mélenchonist, does not embody the republican left. Gauthier Bouchet, representative of Marine Le Pen in the department embodies the xenophobic extreme right.
The candidate does not budge: despite the rallying of Xavier Perrin and David Samzun to the New Popular Front, which she accuses of local political vacillations, she appeals to center left and center right voters in an expanded version of the 12,000 voters who chose it on 1is tour.
« No one owns their votes,” argues the candidate who considers herself “ consistent with my values” and denies playing into the hands of the RN. “It would make no sense for me to withdraw to call for a vote for Matthias Tavel. I am the candidate of voters who want a different path.”
Neither extreme right nor extreme left, her matrix before the first round places her more on the Horizons (Édouard Philippe) line than Renaissance (Gabriel Attal). The remark does not trouble Audrey Dufeu. “ I didn’t know anything about these positions before making this decision beyond the devices, Sunday evening. I love this territory. When you are committed and you carry a vision, you do it with your heart and your values.
