A reversal of the situation in the campaign between the two rounds of the 8th constituency of Loire-Atlantique. Audrey Dufeu, candidate for Ensemble!, the party of the presidential majority, who came in third place last Sunday, at the end of the first round, announced this Tuesday, July 2, that she was withdrawing.
A surprise because on the evening of June 30, she had decided to stay for “represent republican democracy on our territory”The 8th constituency includes Saint-Nazaire and its industrial and port basin which runs along the Loire and stretches to Savenay.
Outcry against its retention
Monday 1is July, Audrey Dufeu persists and signs by confirming her desire to participate in the second round during a press briefing organized in front of the local media. A position that has sparked an outcry. The diverse left candidate Xavier Perrin, whose electorate was courted by the candidate Ensemble, had called on Monday for her withdrawal. This Tuesday, a collective of citizens of Saint-Nazaire called for a gathering in front of the town hall to demand her withdrawal from the campaign, judging that her continuation went against the republican front.
“Moral harassment towards me”
Under pressure and criticism, Audrey Dufeu announced a few hours later that she was withdrawing. She denounced “the climate of political violence in the constituency since Sunday evening and the moral harassment at [son] regard. “
And deplores “the capitulation of local elected officials who did not want to join the republican arc that I proposed. My victory is only possible on the condition of total support from the democratic and republican forces.”
