One seat less for the NFP. LFI candidate Lyes Louffok failed, this Sunday, to retain the seat of the outgoing deputy for the first constituency of Isère, winning 35.72% of the votes. Macronist Camille Galliard-Minier, with a score of 64.28%, therefore gains a seat in the “common base” in Parliament. She is doing better than former minister Olivier Véran who lost this seat last July.
“NFP candidate Lyes Louffok was unable to be elected deputy. The cause of childhood will not have, in the National Assembly, this effective and tenacious spokesperson (…) In a context of strong abstention, a constituency wrested from the right in 2024 by popular mobilization has therefore returned to its traditional representation,” wrote LFI in its press release.
Some 85,000 Isère residents were called to the polls for the second round of this legislative by-election. The vote was to elect a replacement for outgoing LFI deputy Hugo Prevost, who resigned in October after accusations of sexist and sexual violence.
A vote unfavorable to Lyes Louffok
Participation had already been low (35.86%) in the first round and no one doubted that it would be again this Sunday (it rose to 38.25%). Enough to make the mobilization all the more crucial for both camps, for whom this local battle has taken on the appearance of a national symbol in recent days.
Only some 500 votes separated children's rights activist Lyes Louffok, 30, in the first round, who came first thanks to his good result in Grenoble (40.95%), from his Ensemble rival Camille Galliard-Minier. , 49 years old, who on the contrary obtained his best scores in the small, well-off towns which make up the rest of the constituency. The logic of transferring votes from his competitors gave Lyes Louffok little chance of winning this Sunday.
-A vote that caused a stir
It was at the suggestion of LFI that Lyes Louffok, who is not included there, was invested by the New Popular Front (NFP). This choice immediately aroused tensions on the left while the former NFP candidate in Matignon, Lucie Castets, had also considered running for a time, before giving up. The leader of Place publique Raphaël Glucksmann indicated at the beginning of January that he was not giving “any voting instructions”, unlike Olivier Faure, who gave his support to Lyes Louffo on X on Saturday.
The candidate, who failed last June/July during a first candidacy in Val-de-Marne and frequently found himself the target of accusations of “parachuting”, had received numerous support visits on the ground elected officials, most of them close to LFI, but also environmentalists Cyrielle Chatelain and Marine Tondelier, and socialist senator Laurence Rossignol.
Opposite, Camille Galliard-Minier is the former deputy of the former Minister of Health and former holder of the seat, Olivier Véran, whom she replaced in this same position of deputy in the National Assembly when he was in government from 2020 to 2022. She presented herself as a “social democrat” and was counting on her local roots to win. His victory “is the fruit of your roots and your values”, reacted the former Prime Minister, and leader of the Macronist deputies, Gabriel Attal, on X.
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