Outgoing MP Michel Sala (NFP, 33.03%) is more than 5,000 votes behind LR Ciottiste-RN candidate Alexandre Allégret-Pilot (41.02%). Catherine Daufès-Roux (Ensemble, 15.39%) cannot hold on and calls for “blocking the National Rally” while the LR are looking pale.
“Michel, it’s doable. You can do it!” Hit but not sunk, the outgoing MP Michel Sala came in second place under the New Popular Front label, with more than 5,000 votes behind, on the LR-RN candidate Alexandre Allégret-Pilot. Encouraged by his faithful gathered at the Café de l’Abbaye, he nevertheless points to a certain disillusionment. “The momentum in the European elections continues during these legislative elections and it is not pleasant to be in these conditions when in 2022, I was ahead with 2,600 votes! We can still win but we must ask those who did not qualify to listen to what Mr. Macron has just said calling for a blockade of the National Rally. We have done it in other circumstances…”
People start believing in Bardella as the messiah
Catherine Daufès-Roux, Ensemble candidate, excluded from the second round, is also deplored “of this RN wave. People believe in miracles. I have before my eyes his profession of faith where he appears in very small print with Ciotti and Bardella at the top. People are starting to believe in Bardella as the messiah, what do you want me to tell you. He is a seller of dreams!”
Regarding the instruction given in the evening by Prime Minister Attal, “not a single voice in the National Rally”the candidate Ensemble assures to follow the same path. “But we do not own the votes. Next Sunday, I do not know what I will do but, unfortunately, this constituency is going to be taken by this parachute. It is distressing! But I call for a blockade against the National Rally.”
At the Cazot space, the Les Républicains candidate Léa Boyer, despite an increase of 1,565 votes compared to 2022, looked gloomy when leaving office 328, limiting herself to not giving any instructions in a short text message meaning ” that the voter knows what he must do better than anyone else”. In the back of the room, the almost unknown LR-RN candidate paces up and down. Almost alone as well, he remains cautious in his analysis of his qualification for the second round… “Nothing has been done and the undecided must be able to position themselves by consulting each person’s program.” Wanting to be more biting while“In the face of the danger of the extreme left, it is essential to form a democratic and republican front.”
Then, faced with the qualification of the RN as a far-right party by the Constitutional Council in 2024, with which this Ciottiste, from Haute Savoie, has joined, Alexandre Allégret-Pilot responds that “We must stop using scarecrows that are constructed from scratch by invoking random memories. Quite simply, the French are fed up with being told what to think. They are adults, responsible and know who to vote for.”
Nordine Tria, the candidate who came last after Agnès Olinet’s Lutte Ouvrière list, speaks of a man who grew up in a Republic that he no longer recognizes.“We are not a direct democracy but a party democracy. We have three blocs here and it is one of them that will say whether the law is good or not. And given the results announced, it is a shame. We need a citizen’s awakening, outside of the parties. Then, the vote is democratic and people will no longer be able to say that they did not know.”
