The two finalists for the deputation for the eighth constituency (Frontignan-Montpellier) had no formal support from the other candidates in the first round.
Get by. This is, in essence, the exclamation addressed by the candidates defeated in the first round of the legislative elections in the eighth constituency of Hérault (Frontignan-Montpellier) to the finalists next Sunday, Cédric Delapierre (RN) and Sylvain Carrière (LFI/NFP).
Compliance with national instructions
No voting instructions were, in fact, given. Thus, Isabelle Autier (Horizons), credited with third place (16.86%), had “the ambition to maintain myself if I had reached the minimum. Faced with LFI or the RN, we were instructed by Edouard Philippe to provoke a triangular. If it had been against the PS or LR, we would have looked. This It is not now, while these two adversaries remain, that I am going to give instructions for one or the other., says the candidate who was a thousand votes short of being invited in the second week. However, for a first campaign and in a territory where she was not known, the Lunelloise attracted 500 more votes than Jean-François Audrin, much better known in the Montpellier crown, in 2022. “It’s a good start for a party that is only three years old. It salutes our territorial roots”she hopes.
If there were good proposals, I would not have presented myself
This election was also a first experience for Bérangère Dubus (Nouvelle Énergie, DVD). “If there were good solutions proposed, I would not have presented myselfshe explains. So I’m not going to give any instructions. I don’t own my votes anyway.”. And the dynamic young woman notes, “With pleasure”which are score (6.34%), “without being high is very homogeneous throughout the constituency. My voice is a little inaudible at the moment but it has managed to reach the same number of people between the city and the countryside. This first election does not mark an end but rather a beginning”.
No but yes for the environmentalists
For its part, the party L’écologie Autrement, led by Sabri Bouallaga in the Montpellier-Muscatière constituency (3.14%, Sunday), is wielding the art of dancing with words. Let us judge for ourselves: “We have no voting instructions to give today in view of this massive turnout of the electorate which is taking its responsibilities. On the other hand, we are unambiguously blocking the extreme right wherever it remains present in the second round.” Finally, the last of the defeated candidates, Thomas Garnier (LO, 0.83%) limits himself to calling for a barrier to the RN.
A quarter of the votes in the wild
In short, now Cédric Delapierre (40.12%) and Sylvain Carrière (32.71%) know what they have to do between now and next Sunday’s election. With the disappearance of the other candidates from the first round, there are – if we base ourselves on last Sunday’s voters – 17,489 votes (or about 25% of the votes) that are in the wild. As early as Sunday evening, Sylvain Carrière, the outgoing MP, made no secret of the fact that he intended to attract many to keep a mandate that no outgoing MP has ever kept in this constituency. The Vicois will also, with his team, survey the terrain on the Montpellier side (which traditionally votes for its colors) in order to convince the abstainers from the first round. “The participation was strong but there are still a few points to be won”he mentioned on Sunday evening.
Reserve of votes
Cédric Delapierre, for his part, recorded his “strong progress since 2022. I had 19,000 votes in the second round. There, I already have 25,000 and a large reserve of votes. I still have a lot of friends at Les Républicains and we are on a good path dynamic”says the former secretary general of the party for the Occitanie region.
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