The Macronists judge them “constructive”. The outgoing presidential majority should not present a candidate in around twenty constituencies held by elected officials from the Les Républicains (LR), the Socialist Party (PS) or the centrist Liot group, we learned from reliable sources.France Media Agency (AFP), Sunday June 16, at the end of the deadline for submitting candidacies to the prefecture for the 2024 legislative elections.
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These ex-elected officials without competition from Macronie
According to the lists of nominated candidates published by the three parties (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem) on Sunday evening, the majority will not present any in the constituencies of outgoing LR deputies Michèle Tabarot, Marie-Christine Dalloz, Virginie Duby-Muller, Émilie Bonnivard, Nicolas Forissier and Julien Dive.
Agreements have also been made at the local level. In Hauts-de-Seine, the department of election of Gabriel Attal, there will be no candidate in the constituency of the outgoing MoDem deputy Jean-Louis Bourlanges, who is not running, and the majority supports the LR Jean-Didier Berger (LR). She will also not present a candidate against LR deputy Philippe Juvin.
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François Hollande, Jérôme Guedj… and Cahuzac
On the left, the macronie did not post a candidate on Sunday evening against the PS Jérôme Guedj, who is representing himself in Essonne without the agreement of the New Popular Front. There is also no majority candidate posted in the constituencies of outgoing PS deputies Dominique Potier or Cécile Untermaier.
Furthermore, François Hollande, who created a surprise by announcing his candidacy in Corrèze on Saturday, does not have a majority candidate facing him either. “The former president is a candidate in the Alliance France Insoumise and it is not this alliance that we want to see win for the country”however declared the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, guest of RTL this Monday. And to add: “There are other candidates in this constituency more likely to avoid the victory of the National Rally. » In this case, the candidate LR Francis Dubois.
In Lot-et-Garonne, Emmanuel Macron’s party will not present a candidate against Jérôme Cahuzac either but will support LR Guillaume Lepers to block the National Rally, we have learned BFMTV .
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Express campaign on the left and right
As for the independent Liot group, which initiated a motion of censure against the government at the time of the pension reform, the majority did not post candidates on Sunday evening in the constituencies of outgoing deputies Bertrand Pancher, Charles de Courson, Benjamin Saint-Huile, Christophe Naegelen, Martine Froger and even Pierre Morel-A-L’Huissier.
Although taken by surprise by the dissolution announced last Sunday by Emmanuel Macron, a large majority of outgoing Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons deputies are returning for a new mandate.
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These elected officials from the presidential camp, punished or almost
On the Renaissance side, in Paris, Gilles Le Gendre was not reinvested, the party preferring Jean Laussucq, LR councilor of Paris, elected in the 7th arrondissement of which Rachida Dati is the mayor. Gilles Le Gendre, who was president of the Macronist group in the Assembly from 2018 to 2020, is running without a label. In Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), Stéphane Séjourné, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary General of Renaissance, recovers the constituency of Emmanuel Pellerin.
In Ain, Damien Abad, ex-president of the LR group, re-elected under the Macronist label and short-lived minister in 2022, indicted for attempted rape, is running without a label and will not have a majority candidate facing him , according to the same sources. 24 of the 35 ministers in the Attal government are candidates, starting with the Prime Minister in Hauts-de-Seine.
