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For the first time, the National Rally came out on top in an urban office in the 3rd constituency. A sign of a new, more “bourgeois” anchoring in the city centre of Toulouse.
Vote in the cities and vote in the countryside. It is through this sociological prism that we are accustomed to analyzing the rise of the National Rally, which is more spectacular in the countryside than in urban centers. Especially in Toulouse, where Marine Le Pen’s party had until now had a marginal score. But things are starting to change. Beyond the qualification for the second round of the legislative elections of 9 of its 10 candidates in Haute-Garonne, the RN has discreetly progressed in the Ville Rose. The party even allows itself the luxury of coming out on top in polling station 252, located in the premises of the Anatole France school, included in the third constituency which also includes the first ring of the east of the agglomeration. There, Stéphanie Alarcon broke through the glass ceiling by gathering 36.49% of the votes in her name and well ahead of Corinne Vignon, the outgoing Macronist MP (25.68%) and Agathe Roby, from the New Popular Front (25.53%).
“Here, we fear more the chaos of the Insoumis”
It is the little blue wart that appears on the voting map in Toulouse, in an ocean of purple of the united left… Almost an anomaly in an environment that does not have the characteristics that a priori correspond to a popular vote, or even a populist one. Stuck between the Boulevard de la Méditerranée, the Canal du Midi and the Avenue de Saint-Exupéry, up to Montaudran and Rangueil, the district is dotted with individual houses and small collectives in a very “bourgeois” comfort, far in any case from the pockets of poverty where the RN is supposed to prosper. Long the preserve of the Republicans and Laurence Arribagé, close to Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor, before falling into the arms of Macronists, this little corner of paradise is nevertheless slipping ever more to the right. “Here, we fear more the chaos of the Insoumis,” sums up a passer-by. That says it all.
