Candidate for re-election as a member of parliament in the 10th constituency of Yvelines, Minister Aurore Bergé is in a good position but will have to go through a second round in the 2024 legislative elections in view of the first results published.
Aurore Bergé is one of the ministers involved in the early legislative elections of 2024. Elected as a member of parliament before becoming a minister, the one in charge of Equality between men and women was a candidate for re-election in the 10th constituency of Yvelines. The first round, which took place this Sunday, June 30, put her in the lead since the first results credited her with 33.55% of the votes after 95.26% of the ballots counted.
The Ensemble pour la République candidate would thus be ahead of RN candidate Thomas Du Chalard by 5 points, also on the verge of qualifying for the second round since credited with a good lead over left-wing candidate Cédric Briolais. The latter would obtain around 22% of the votes.
The Macronist elected in the same constituency in 2017 and 2022 can hold on to these last two elections but this is without taking into account the landscape and the French political context in full change since the announcement of the dissolution of the Assembly. Will his strategy of shooting at the two rival blocs of the RN and the New Popular Front, calling them extreme and sending them back to back, both to try to convince in his constituency and at the national level pay off? at the end of the second round?
What result for Aurore Bergé in the legislative elections? Precedents that give him some confidence
Aurore Bergé managed to get elected in a constituency that was historically right-wing in 2017 and to keep her seat as a member of parliament in 2022. The minister’s past within the UMP makes her a candidate compatible with a right-wing electorate and the shift made in recent months by the presidential camp has reinforced this positioning. The minister did not have an opponent from the right-wing party Les Républicains in 2017 and managed to impose herself largely against the diverse right candidate with 46.63% of the votes in the first round. She confirmed her score in the second round with 64.75% of the votes. The return of an LR candidate against Aurore Bergé did not make the member of parliament go down in the votes: she came out on top in both rounds ahead of the representative of the Union of the Left.
But more than the right, it is the extreme right of the National Rally and the union of the left under the New Popular Front that competes with Aurore Bergé’s candidacy. Moreover, the RN came out on top in the 10th constituency of Yvelines during the European elections with 23.79% of the vote, just ahead of the majority and its 18.29%.
If the minister seems able to impose herself against the left and the right, the fight with the National Rally was announced to be tight. Confirmation on the evening of the first round with, in view, the duel planned for the second round.
