The Minister Delegate for Communities and Rural Affairs, Dominique Faure, who came third in the 10th constituency of Haute-Garonne, announced her withdrawal on Tuesday, July 2, for the second round of the legislative elections after having announced the opposite on Monday.
A decision made “responsibly”. The Minister Delegate for Communities and Rural Affairs Dominique Faure, beaten by the PS and the RN in the 10th constituency of Haute-Garonne, announced this Tuesday, July 2, that she was withdrawing her candidacy for the legislative elections.
“In the context of the national context, the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister asked me to withdraw my candidacy in the second round,” she explains on X.
Narrowly elected in 2022
At the end of the first round, the socialist Jacques Oberti, for the New Popular Front, came out on top with 36.24% of the votes, ahead of the RN candidate Caroline Falgas-Colomina (30.37%) and Dominique Faure, outgoing MP (28.99%), from the Radical Party.
Initially on Monday, the Ensemble candidate had indicated that she would remain in the second round. “I have 22,800 voters who voted for it and I can’t see how I would give them the only choice of voting RN or LFI,” the minister argued, considering that the PS Jacques Oberti “is linked by an alliance with LFI.”
In this rural territory which extends from the commercial areas of eastern Toulouse to the agricultural region of Lauragais, Dominique Faure narrowly won the second round in 2022, totalling 200 votes more than her opponent from Générations, Alice Assier, invested by Nupes.
