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Olivier Faure was elected in the first round of the legislative elections. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)
POLITICS – They saved their skin in the first round. While many legislative candidates are preparing to go back to campaigning and hold their breath before the second round on July 7, some are already assured of regaining their seat in the Assembly. To do so, they had to collect more than 50% of the votes in the first round on June 30: and 76 of them have achieved this feat.
On the far right, there are 39 in this case. Starting with Marine Le Pen. The former RN candidate for the presidential election announced, at 8:10 p.m., that she had been reappointed for a new term. In a lightning speech delivered in front of a crowd of supporters, she thanked the voters of Pas-de-Calais for giving her “the honor of [l]’elect tonight’.
In the Somme, a few kilometers away, the former RN vice-president of the Assembly Sebastien Chenu also revealed that he was re-elected. Just like Julien Odoul in the Yonne, Edwige Diaz in Gironde, Emmanuel Blairy et Marine Cousin in Pas-de-Calais, Nicolas Meizonnet in Gard. In Var, the far-right party announced that 4 outgoing deputies were also re-elected in the first round, including Laure Lavalette. Elected LR in 2022, Christelle Around This time, he won as part of the Ciotti-Le Pen alliance.
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On the left, 32 candidates win in the first round. The First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure will thus be able to regain his seat in the Assembly. From the first round, the voters of Seine-et-Marne gave him their confidence. The same goes for Mathilde Panot (LFI) in Val-de-Marne, Clemence Guette in Val-de-Marne, Manuel Bompard et Sebastien Delogu (LFI) in Bouches-du-Rhône, Bastien Lachaud (LFI) in Seine-Saint-Denis, Ugo Bernalice (LFI) in the North, Marie-Charlotte Garin (The Ecologists) in Isère, Martine Froger (PS) in Ariège.
In Paris, many candidates of the new Popular Front won their ticket to the Palais Bourbon at the end of this first round, starting with Emmanuel Gregoire who beat the incumbent Clément Beaune in the 7th constituency. In the 5th constituency, Pouria Amirshahiwho is making his return to politics for this election, takes over from Julien Bayou in the fifth constituency.
Victory is also assured for Sophia Chikirou (6th constituency) and Daniele Obono (17th), already elected in the first round in 2022, Eva Sas (8e), Sandrine Rousseau (9e), Rodrigo Arenas (10th), Sarah Legrain (16th) and Aymeric Caron (18e).
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We will also note the victory of a Macronist incumbent in the first round: Pierre Cazeneuve in Hauts-de-Seine, a department where Philippe Juvin (LR) also wins.
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