Laurent Wauquiez came out on top in the first round of legislative elections in the 1re constituency of Haute-Loire, where he was a member of parliament from 2004 to 2007 and then from 2012 to 2017, after having obtained 36,80 % votes, Sunday June 30. The president (Les Républicains, LR) of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is ahead of the candidate of the National Rally (RN), Alexandre Heuzey (34.18%), whom he will face in the second round. The ecologist candidate of the New Popular Front, Celline Gacon, third (18.66% of the votes), is in a position to remain for the second round.
Aiming to be the “natural candidate” of the right for the 2027 presidential election, the former president of the Republicans saw his announcement of candidacy for these legislative elections being hit by that of Eric Ciotti who, at the same time on June 11, revealed on the set of TF1 his alliance with the RN.
An agreement disavowed by Mr. Wauquiez, who defends a line “independent” pour LR « between the impotence of “at the same time” [cher à Emmanuel Macron] and the RN’s leap into the unknown.” “When you do politics, you don’t respond with agreements, coalitions, little deals made on the sly to negotiate constituencies. You do it by defending your convictions.”he estimated before the first round.
