Legislative: Eric Dupond-Moretti, Elisabeth Borne, Jean-Michel Blanquer… the candidacies of outgoing ministers – franceinfo

Eric Dupond-Moretti in the North, Elisabeth Borne in Calvados, Jean-Michel Blanquer in Loiret… Government ministers are embarking on the campaign for the legislative elections in June. According to information from France Inter Thursday, April 28, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti will be a candidate in the North, in Hazebrouck. The current deputy for this 15th constituency of the department is an ex-LREM, Jennifer de Temmerman, who won after a duel with the RN. She left LREM three years ago. The Keeper of the Seals participated on April 15 in Hazebrouck in a public meeting with Richard Ferrand and Gérald Darmanin. Like the start of a campaign. Jean-Michel Blanquer, the Minister of Education, will present himself in the 4th district of Loiret, in Montargis. A constituency held since 2002 by LR Jean-Pierre Door, 80, who is not standing. The Minister Delegate for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher, originally from Paris, will be a candidate in Lens, in the 3rd district of Pas-de-Calais, whose outgoing deputy is Emmanuel Blairy. If he sits among the non-registered, he was elected as an alternate to RN José Evrard, and he succeeded him after his death last January. Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Labor, is targeting the 6th constituency of Calvados, where the outgoing LREM deputy, Alain Tourret, is not standing. She had organized a public meeting there, in Vire, on April 19. Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State in charge of disability, will be a candidate in Haute-Savoie, in the 2nd district, that of Annecy. It is an ex-LREM who was elected there in 2017, Frédérique Lardet. She left the presidential party in 2020 and resigned from her mandate last January and it was her deputy, Jacques Rey, who succeeded her. The Minister Delegate for Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon, will present herself in Val-de-Marne, her department. She will be a candidate in the 8th constituency, that of Maisons-Alfort, Charenton and Joinville, facing LR Michel Herbillon, who has been the deputy since 1997 and who, at 71, is again a candidate. Clément Beaune, the Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs and close to Emmanuel Macron, presents himself in Paris, in the 7th district of Paris, that of the deputy LREM Pacôme Rupin who does not represent himself. He should face David Belliard, the EELV deputy to the town hall of Paris. Many other ministers elected as deputies in 2017 will be candidates for re-election: Bérangère Abba (Secretary of State in charge of Biodiversity) in Haute-Marne, Gabriel Attal (Secretary of State to the Prime Minister and government spokesperson) in Hauts-de-Seine, Marc Fesneau (Delegate Minister for Relations with Parliament and Citizen Participation) in Loir-et-Cher, Joël Giraud (Minister for Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities) in the Hautes-Alpes, Olivia Grégoire (Secretary of State in charge of the Social, Solidarity and Responsible Economy) in Paris, Nadia Hai (Delegate Minister in charge of the City) in the Yvelines, Amélie de Montchalin (Minister of Transformation and Civil Service) in Essonne, Laurent Pietraszewski (Secretary of State in charge of Pensions and Occupational Health) in the North, Franck Riester (Delegate Minister in charge of Foreign Trade and Attractiveness) in Seine -et-Marne, Adrien Taquet (Secretary of State for Children and Families) in Hauts-de-Seine and Olivier Véran (Minister of Health) in Isère. Finally, Bruno Le Maire (Minister of Economy, Finance and Recovery) should be a candidate again in Eure, and Gérald Darmanin (Minister of the Interior) in Tourcoing. The Minister of Agriculture Julien Denormandie, like the Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, will not be candidates. Barbara Pompili (Minister for Ecological Transition) is still hesitating.