who are the declared candidates to succeed the youngest deputy in France?

Following the resignation of Flavien Termet (RN) for health reasons, a partial legislative election is organized in December in the first constituency of the Ardennes. Discover the list of candidates declared for this election.

This will be the second time in a year that voters in the first constituency of the Ardennes will choose their deputy. Flavien Termet, during the anticipated legislative elections of June and July 2024, announced his resignation in September for health reasons.

While the constituency narrowly escaped the RN in 2022, Flavien Termet largely won in the second round in July 2024 against his opponent, an outgoing deputy from the presidential majority.

Flavien Termet, 22, was the youngest elected official in the National Assembly. During the election for the presidency of the Assembly, several elected officials refused to shake his hand, while he was at the podium, near the ballot box.

A ministerial decree has scheduled the new election in the first constituency of the Ardennes for December 1 and 8. Discover below the names of those who have already announced their candidacy for this election.

The National Rally will be represented in the upcoming election by Jordan Duflot. This 27-year-old young man, an activist for Marine Le Pen's party in the Ardennes for three years, held a first public meeting on Saturday November 2 in Thin-le-Moutier, in the presence of deputies Laurent Jacobelli and Julien Odoul.

“I wish to be able to defend the Ardennes. Defend the purchasing power of the Ardennes, rurality, education and our public services and finally defend the security of all of our compatriots”the candidate tells us. “Flavien Termet has done excellent work during these three months, we will continue his work and mark our commitment.”

Lionel Vuibert, deputy member of the Renaissance group from 2022 to 2024, is again in the running. In the press release which formalizes his candidacy, he presents himself as a “free man” and does not mention any political affiliation.

“I am fortunate to have the benefit of two years of experience as a parliamentarian. I acquired three convictions there, he explains to our journalist Sébastien Valente. The first is that the deputy must be someone who carries projects for the territory […] The second thing is that the MP must not be the exclusive representative of a political party, which is why, as last July, I will present myself without a label […] The third is that I am even more convinced than before that the deputy must have solid experience as a local elected official and someone who has had a real active life.”

Candidate in 2022, but not for the early legislative elections of 2024, Guillaume Maréchal is once again submitting his name to the voters of the first constituency. The vice-president of the Grand Est regional council, in charge of sports and youth, hopes to be able to reconquer the constituency long held by the Les Républicains deputy Bérangère Poletti, whom he describes as his “reference in politics”.

“We are in a difficult situation today. We need people who have the courage […] I want to have this courage and help my country and the Ardennes”, explains the elected representative of Les Républicains, referring in particular to France's budgetary situation.

Damien Lerouge, of the Socialist Party, already a candidate in the early legislative elections of June and July 2024, will once again embody the New Popular Front in December.

“Today, we must change this policy that Emmanuel Macron and Michel Barnier want to impose on us on purchasing power, the cost of energy, the daily lives of the French. We need elected officials on the ground who are local elected officials”, explains to us the one who is alsohe first federal secretary of the Socialist Party in the Ardennes.

Mink Takawé, school teacher, will be a candidate for Lutte Ouvrière. In 2022 and 2024, she was already a candidate, but in the second constituency of the Ardennes.

“Faced with economic and climatic disasters and in the face of war which threatens to become widespread, workers will be able to seize this ballot to express the need to overthrow this capitalist system which exhausts men and nature and only lasts in pitting people against each other.explains the candidate in a press release.

Bruno North, regional councilor for the Grand Est and president of the National Center of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), is a candidate for this by-election.

The man already a candidate in 2022, but not in the summer of 2024, assures “to fight for a serious national policy, to fight public spending, taxation and destructive wokism, and to defend individual freedoms, as close as possible to everyday concerns.”

Sonia D'Orgeville, already a candidate in the summer of 2024 for Ecology at the center, is running against the voters of the first constituency. said to herself “ddetermined to defend the common good and with the desire to contribute to local or national politics.

As applications are still being submitted until Friday November 8 at 6 p.m., this list may be incomplete. A future prefectural decree will formalize the full list of candidates for this partial legislative.