“There is no such thing as a lifetime investiture,” had argued Jean-Luc Mélenchon to justify that La France insoumise excluded from its list of candidates several outgoing deputies of the party, critical of the movement and its leader. “Purges” who were still able to claim a New Popular Front label thanks to the support of other left-wing parties. Not invested by LFI but still in the race: Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière in Seine-Saint-Denis, Hendrik Davi in Marseille and Danielle Simonnet in Paris will all be present in the second round next Sunday.
Alexis Corbière, 7th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis
With his dissident status, outgoing LFI deputy Alexis Corbière finished at the top of the first round of these legislative elections in Montreuil and Bagnolet with 40.19% of the votes. Facing him, La France insoumise had invested the emergency doctor Sabrina Ali Benali, under the label of the New Popular Front. She received 36.38% of the votes during this first round and therefore ranked just behind. The second round, next Sunday, will therefore offer a duel between rebels. The other candidates, Pauline Breteau (Horizons) for the presidential majority, and Françoise Trova, for the National Rally, respectively gathered 10.06% and 9.69% of the voters.
“I’m in the second round,” Alexis Corbière declared on television on Sunday evening. “But my fate in a very particular constituency is quite secondary compared to what is happening in France. I invite all of our fellow citizens to vote next Sunday to prevent the National Rally from having a majority. he added. Who will benefit from the carryover of votes to the second round? In 2022, Alexis Corbière was the best-elected deputy in France, in the first round of the legislative elections, gathering 62.94% of the votes cast.
Raquel Garrido, 5th constituency of the Seine-Saint-Denis
With 23.65% of the vote, Raquel Garrido narrowly missed out. The outgoing MP was running as a dissident in the 5th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, against Aly Diouara, nominated by La France insoumise. It is the latter, a local government official at the town hall of Drancy and from the associative sector, who came out on top in the second round, after collecting 33.11% of the vote. Opposite them, they will find the mayor of Drancy Aude Lagarde (Union of Democrats and Independents), who collected 23.65% of the vote this Sunday, finishing second in this first round.
In 2022, Raquel Garrido won the constituency from her husband, local baron Jean-Christophe Lagarde, with 53.50% of the votes in the second round.
Danielle Simonnet, 15th district of Paris
100% New Popular Front duel in the second round in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Outgoing rebellious deputy, Danielle Simonnet kept the confidence of the voters by collecting 41.87% of the votes in the first round this Sunday. This puts her ahead of the official LFI candidate, Céline Verzeletti, also a member of the CGT leadership, who collected 22.87% of the votes. Behind them, the Renaissance candidate Mohamad Gassama failed to qualify for the second round, with 16.22% of the votes cast.
Two years ago, Danielle Simonnet won this constituency, which had long been the Socialist Party’s, with 58.45% of the vote in the second round.
Hendrik Davi, 5th constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône
Less identified than his three “purge” companions, the outgoing deputy Hendrik Davi was running for the third time as a candidate in the legislative elections in Marseille, in a constituency covering the 4th and part of the 5th and 6th arrondissements. The rebel rebel won 25.77% of the vote on Sunday, which qualifies him for the second round of these early legislative elections, for a theoretical three-way race between an RN and two rebels. The official LFI candidate, the publisher Allan Popelard, won 23.32% of the vote, which places him in third place in the poll. Popelard and Davi will face the National Rally candidate, Franck Liquori, next Sunday, who came first with 25.77% of the vote.
In 2022, Hendrik Davi, invested by Nupes, won the constituency with the presidential majority by gathering 40.30% of the votes in the first round (against 23.41% for the outgoing Macronist deputy Cathy Racon-Bouzon), then 56.64% of the votes in the second round.
As soon as they are published by the Ministry of the Interior, find all the results by constituency of the first round of the 2024 legislative elections on the site of Release.
