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Marine Le Pen's efforts to support her party's candidate in the Ardennes were not enough to retain the lost seat after a surprise resignation.
POLITICS – In the middle of a confused political situation awaiting the formation of a new government, the National Rally loses a feather in the hemicycle. Consequence of the result of the partial legislative election in the first constituency of the Ardennes this Sunday, December 8.
Candidate without label and former Renaissance deputy, Lionel Vuibert came first in the ballot made compulsory after the surprise resignation of the former youngest member of the National Assembly Flavien Termet in September. A withdrawal two months after the anticipated legislative elections provoked by Emmanuel Macron which the young elected representative of the RN had explained by “ personal medical reasons ».
Except that by putting the election back into play, the RN lost, beaten very narrowly: Lionel Vuibert collected 50.89% of the votes, against 49.11% for the RN opponent Jordan Duflot. Only 372 votes separated the two candidates during this vote, which was especially marked by the strong abstention (30.86% in the second round).
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Despite the efforts of the RN to retain this seat gleaned during the last election, the party executives had pulled out all the stops. But they ultimately ran into a Republican roadblock after coming first in the first round. The LR candidate Guillaume Maréchal having chosen to support Lionel Vuibert. NFP candidate Damien Lerouge, for his part, called for « barrage au RN ».
On Wednesday, right between the two rounds, Jordan Bardella came to support the RN candidate and Marine Le Pen had published several messages of support on her X account. In vain.
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The Ardennes deputy elected this Sunday therefore regains his position lost in the summer. Departmental advisor and general director of the training centers of the Union of Metallurgical Industries and Trades of Champagne-Ardenne (UIMM), Lionel Vuibert was congratulated this Sunday by the new boss of the Ensemble group in the hemicycle since this Sunday. A certain Gabriel Attal.
“The attention to daily life of the French prevails over the chaos desired by Marine Le Pen and the extremes”he said to the winner, who had however presented himself without a label despite his proximity to the presidential majority.
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