Legislative 2022: in the first round, the vote of French people living abroad confirms the duel Together!-Nupes – Le Monde

One week before the legislative elections, the first round of which will be held on Sunday June 12 in mainland France and overseas, the results of the first round in the eleven constituencies of French people living outside France were published on the night of Sunday June 5 at Monday, June 6, reserving their share of surprises and lessons. However, the most commented on will undoubtedly have been that of the 5th constituency, covering Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco, which saw former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, invested by the presidential majority, eliminated in the first round. . What appeared to be an offering was in fact a poison. By investing Mr. Valls in this constituency which had been largely favorable to him in 2017 and in the presidential election of 2022, Emmanuel Macron has in fact completed the last hopes maintained by his former rival to return to the forefront of the national political scene. The former Prime Minister was eliminated with only 16.16% of the votes cast. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Manuel Valls’s candidacy for the legislative elections causes a stir in Spain On paper, however, the imprimatur of La République en Marche (LRM) gives Macronist candidates a solid chance of winning with the 1.43 million French people from abroad, who offered 45% of their votes to the Head of State in the first round of the presidential election. But the combined weight of the left alliance, the dissident candidacy of outgoing deputy (LRM) Stéphane Vojetta and the personal tension aroused by the very divisive Manuel Valls got the better of the former tenant of Matignon. He himself announced his defeat on Twitter on Sunday evening: “If dissent and division have sown confusion, I cannot ignore my score and the fact that my candidacy did not convince. » « It is up to me lucidly to draw the consequences. Life is good enough to quietly turn the pages, ”he added, before deleting his Twitter account, where he was the subject of numerous taunts and attacks from his opponents and – many – detractors. Fatal dissident candidacy for Valls His investiture by the Macronist camp was surprising, as Mr. Valls maintains, at 59, ambivalent relations with the President of the Republic. During the five-year term of François Hollande, the former mayor of Evry had faced more than once his ambitious Minister of the Economy, who had then constructed himself politically as a mirror in front of him, a claimed herald of a Republican left and uncompromising secular. Narrowly re-elected MP in 2017 in Essonne – no “walking” candidate then presented himself against him – he left the National Assembly a year later to try his luck in the municipal elections in Barcelona (Spain). In vain. You have 55.65% of this article left to read. The following is for subscribers only.