The LR/RN alliance and the union of the left are only separated by a handful of votes at the end of the first round. Next Sunday, it is the decision of the outgoing MP, Patricia Miralles, which could tip the scales.
This Sunday, the navy blue wave that left the Hérault coast ended up sweeping away the 1st constituency of Hérault. For just a handful of votes. Largely supported by the votes of the municipalities of Lattes, Palavas, Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, Pérols, Saint-Jean-de-Védas and Lavérune, the Ciottiste candidate Josyan Oliva – supported by the National Rally – saw his lead melt over time. the evening. And as the Montpellier offices are examined.
Josyan Oliva and Jean-Louis Roumégas neck and neck
At the end of the night, the LR/RN candidate finally came out on top in this first round with 34.11% of the votes… forty more ballots than his opponent from the New Popular Front, the environmentalist Jean-Louis Roumégas (34.04%). “It was tough, but we are ahead with a score much higher than that obtained by the RN in 2022 (France Jamet finished 3rd with 20.58%, Editor’s note). I am sure that Reconquest and Republican voters will support my candidacy for uniting the rights. We will now have to convince those of Patricia Miralles that choosing a Popular Front led in particular by La France Insoumise would be a very bad thing for the country. It’s up to us to confirm…”confided Josyan Oliva at the end of the evening.
Jean-Louis Roumégas, for his part, believed for a long time that he could beat his “main political opponent”. “The voters of Montpellier mobilized strongly to block the far-right, which allows us to end this first round with a near equality. Everything remains openindicates the man who was already a member of parliament for this constituency between 2012 and 2017. I also heard the messages from the President of the Republic and Gabriel Attal. I hope that Patricia Miralles will make the necessary decision. She surely has the key to the second round.”
Will Patricia Miralles withdraw?
Complicated evening for the outgoing MP. Like other executives of the presidential majority, the elected representative from Hérault paid the price for voters’ resentment towards the President of the Republic. How far away it seems, the scenario of 2022 where, arriving just behind the candidate Nupes in the first round, she managed to reverse the trend to retain a seat that she had occupied in the Assembly since 2017. This Sunday, Patricia Miralles perhaps felt the tide turning very early on.
At the start of the evening, she canceled the planned rally with her activists in Palavas, officially “due to late results”before turning off her mobile phone. With 22.54% of the vote, the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs is doing much better than the presidential majority list in the European elections (11.65% in this constituency). Able to stay in the second round, she nevertheless seems too far behind to be able to catch up. The question of withdrawing is clearly posed for the outgoing MP. In the early hours of this Monday, July 1, Patricia Miralles had not yet officially decided…
Éric chaveroche (the republicans)
“I am curious to see how each side will position themselves. For my part, I am slightly up (4.29%) compared to 2022, in a complicated context. Who am I calling on to vote for? I will wait for my party’s official position. But one thing is certain, I will not support a candidate supported by the National Rally!”
Stéphanie Lévy (center left)
“I am happy that, despite an express campaign, 1,400 voters chose a ballot offering an alternative (1.62%). These people are old enough to make their choice for the second round. But for me who am a centrist and environmentalist, seeing that the candidacy of the New Popular Front is supported by Jean-Louis Roumégas, it is reassuring. I therefore call on Patricia Miralles to quickly make a decision, and to withdraw in favor of the NFP, for the good. common.”
