to block the RN in close contact with Darmanin in the North, the LFI candidate withdraws

The Minister of the Interior can breathe a sigh of relief. Third (24.82%) in the 10th constituency of the North during the first round of the early legislative elections behind the National Rally candidate Bastien Verbrugghe (34.31%) and Gérald Darmanin (36.03%), the Insoumise Leslie Mortreux announced Monday evening, after having made the suspense last, her withdrawal in view of the second round on July 7. A decision motivated by the local three-way race, from which the party with the flame could have pulled out all the stops. 837 votes in fact separate the first two qualified.

Without calling on her 12,000 voters to vote specifically for the Minister of the Interior, the woman who had already launched herself into the battle for the legislative elections in 2022 clearly hopes to counter the nationalist surge at work throughout the country. “Because I believe that the extreme right is the antithesis of these values, I want to call on you here and unambiguously not to vote.” for the RN, urged Leslie Montreux in a press release. As early as Sunday evening, Gérald Darmanin had recognized the “high score” obtained by his Le Pen opponent. And called “all voters to mobilize to vote in the second round.”

The left in the lead in Tourcoing

While several dozen candidates from the New Popular Front, who came in third place in their territory, withdrew in recent hours to «to block» to the movement chaired by Jordan Bardella, the representative of the Ecological Revolution for the Living (REV) urged the “the whole of society to wake up to the imposture of this racist, antisocial and mendacious party” that the “national camp” would embody. With her first position (36.38%) ahead of the presidential bloc and the RN in Tourcoing itself – the political and electoral stronghold of France’s top cop – Leslie Montreux has made an appointment for the future: “Together, we will continue to carry the program of union, that of an ecological and united left.”