The presidential camp does not have candidates everywhere. In 65 constituencies, the outgoing majority chose to step aside to avoid the scattering of votes. These are mainly constituencies held by the right, outgoing LR deputies who did not follow Éric Ciotti to the RN, such as the president of the group in the Assembly Olivier Marleix, Philippe Juvin in Hauts-de-Seine or even Julien Dive, a close friend of Xavier Bertrand, in Aisne, and Michèle Tabarot in the Alpes-Maritimes.
They will not have Macronist candidates against them, just like around twenty left-wing candidates, outside the LFI: the boss of the PS Olivier Faure and that of the PCF Fabien Roussel will also have free rein to confront the RN, as well as François Hollande. in the name of respect for his former position”, the majority say. “Our challenge is to be the useful vote from the first round explains a close friend of Emmanuel Macron. Where we cannot be, we withdraw, to leave the candidate of the Republican bloc.”
The strategy was refined at the Elysée, where Emmanuel Macron received the leaders of his majority this Sunday. The presidential camp wants to believe in a dynamic of mobilization in this niche of “useful voting”, with one argument: to avoid having to choose between two extremes.
(SK)
