National Rally (RN) candidate Jordan Duflot hopes to succeed former MP Flavien Termet, who resigned three months after his election, officially for health reasons.
Will the National Rally (RN) keep its seat? Two months after the resignation for medical reasons of Flavien Termet, elected at the age of 22 as deputy for the 1st constituency of the Ardennes – and for a few weeks who became the youngest member of the Assembly – the voters of the territory were once again called to the polls this Sunday for the first round of a partial legislative election.
With 30.5% participation, RN Jordan Duflot comes well ahead with 39.12% of the votes, according to results communicated by the Ardennes prefecture. Far ahead of former Renaissance deputy Lionel Vuibert (25.42%), launched into the battle without partisan affiliation but supported by the presidential camp. As a transposition of the presidential divide of 2017 and 2022 between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, the two candidates are qualified for the second round which will be played on December 8.
Quickly, the leader of the RN deputies sent her “Congratulations” to his representative. A sign, according to her, that “the electoral dynamic is growing” after the party's victory by flame a week ago in the town of Rognac (Bouches-du-Rhône). “Next Sunday, the choice will be clear to voters: prepare for alternation and sanction the government’s disastrous policies and budgetary choices”indicated Marine Le Pen, against the backdrop of the threat to the Barnier government and the budgetary texts.
Eliminated, the Republicans do better
If the Republicans, allied to the central bloc in the ruling coalition, do significantly better than in July with 16.04% of the votes for Guillaume Maréchal, they find themselves, given the high level of abstention, eliminated from the race ( obtaining 12.5% of those registered is necessary to qualify for the second round of a legislative election). A direct consequence of the absence of a single “common core” candidate.
The only consolation prize for the right-wing party, it clearly distances itself from the figure of the New Popular Front (NFP). With 10.64%, Damien Lerouge will not be in the second round either. A disappointment in comparison to the early election in June where this socialist reached 17.48% of the vote, before withdrawing between the two rounds in favor of the Macronist candidate facing the RN. Despite the “Republican front”, the flame party won the constituency with nearly 53%.
