Will Michel Barnier return in the National Assembly? The voters of the Second District of Paris, historically anchored to the right, are called to the polls on Sunday, September 28, in the second round of a partial legislative that gives the former prime minister much favorite in front of the socialist Frédérique Bredin.
The 74 -year -old Republican candidate came as expected at the top of the first round last Sunday with 45% of the votes against former François Minister Mitterrand, 68, who collected 32%, in a context of strong abstention.
Only a quarter of the 75,000 registered voters voted in this district of the beautiful districts of the left shore to horcajadas over the fifth, 6 and 7 districts, where the choice of the macronista attachment Jean Laussucq was invalidated by irregularities in his campaign accounts.
The only deputy of LR in Paris in case of Victoria
Michel Barnier saw him as the expression of “dissatisfaction, tiredness, with respect to the current national political situation”, while Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is still without a government.
If you are chosen on Sunday, the most ephemeral minister of the 5th Republic will become the only deputy of LR in the capital, whose 18 electoral districts have been shared since 2022 between the left and the macronists.
The former Brexit negotiator, several times a deputy of Savoie, will find the banks of the National Assembly less than a year after being overthrown there.
“He was landed from Matignon and returned through these elections to return to pursue the halls,” said Olivier Faure, the PS chief, who came to tow Thursday with Frédérique Bredin in the fifth district, where he is at the head.
A renowned circumscription
Michel Barnier should have prevailed in the first round in this famous unfaithful journey on the right. “But it symbolizes the failure of the government and the people are tired of this permanent crisis,” said the socialist, who received the support of former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and the former macronist attached of the constituency between 2017 and 2024, Gilles Le Gendre.
The left also believes that part of the center-right electorate was rejected by the “maneuvers” of the opposite field, when the mayor of the 7th Rachida Dati district had threatened to appear against Michel Barnier, before launching the inauguration of the LR for the municipal.
Michel Barnier repeats that his socialist competitor is “supported by LFI”, who did not introduce a candidate. On Sunday, Savoyard could benefit from a partial postponement of the votes obtained by the candidates of the RN Thierry Mariani, who arrived in third place (7%), and Hilaire Bouyé Reconquest (6%).
Source: BFM TV
