There will ultimately be only three three-way races in Essonne on Sunday, July 7 for the second round of the early legislative elections. While on Monday, July 1, Naïma Sifer, candidate (Horizons) in the 2nd constituency (the cantons of Étampes, Mennecy, Milly-la-Forêt, La Ferté-Alais and Méréville) announced that she would remain, she has just published a press release this Tuesday afternoon to say that she would not be running in the second round of voting, next Sunday. The scheduled three-way race is therefore transformed into a duel between the outgoing MP (National Rally) Nathalie Da Conceiçao Carvalho and the candidate (New Popular Front) Mathieu Hillaire, a minority municipal councillor in Étampes.
“This decision was not easy to make”
“Because the stakes in our country and our territory are much greater than my person, and that in all lucidity today a victory is not possible, I do not wish to add chaos to the fracture that our territory and more broadly our country is undergoing, writes Naïma Sifer. We have decided in all conscience not to present ourselves to your votes during the second round of the legislative elections.”
Contacted by telephone, she confirmed this change of position. “This decision was not easy to make,” confided Naïma Sifer, who obtained 22.09%, behind the outgoing MP (40.3%) and Mathieu Hillaire (26.54%). I needed time to think and discuss with my team and Jérôme Desnoue, my substitute.”
She therefore withdrew, but without calling for votes for either of her opponents, faithful to the line of “neither RN nor LFI” dictated by Édouard Philippe, the former Prime Minister and head of the Horizons party. “The voting instructions are over, people are disgusted by all that,” she defends herself.
