Results of the 2022 legislative elections: Secretary of State Justine Benin falls in Guadeloupe and will have to resign – Le Monde

Justine Benin at the Elysée, May 23, 2022, for the first council of ministers. CYRIL BITTON FOR “THE WORLD” She is the first member of Elisabeth Borne’s government who fails to be re-elected on Sunday June 19 in the second round of the legislative elections. The Secretary of State for the Sea, Justine Benin, was beaten in the second round in the 2nd constituency of Guadeloupe, against the various left candidate Christian Baptiste, who had the support of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) , according to the prefecture of Guadeloupe. She obtained only 41.35% of the votes against 58.65% for her opponent. Ms. Benin had to win on Sunday to stay in the Borne government because, as in 2017, members of the government who are candidates for deputy will have to resign in the event of failure. In the government of Elisabeth Borne, Justine Benin is one of the fifteen ministers and secretaries of state appointed on Friday May 20 who are running for the legislative elections, including the prime minister. Defeated by the mayor of Sainte-Anne, she will therefore have to resign. Asked after her failure by RCI radio about her future in the government, Ms. Benin said on Saturday evening that “in the current state of things [elle n’avait] no response to this yet” and should be fixed “by Monday”. The outgoing deputy, invested by the presidential coalition Together! had however obtained 31.31% of the votes during the first round, Sunday June 12, and was ahead of Mr. Baptiste by 4.5 points (26.78% of the votes). Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers For Justine Benin, the Secretary of State in charge of the sea, a high-risk campaign for the 2022 legislative elections Anti-Macron Vote Candidate under the colors of the presidential majority, the elected Democratic Movement ( MoDem) is very locally rooted in her constituency, where she was elected in 2017. Former vice-president of the Guadeloupe regional council – under the socialist majority of Victorin Lurel, the former overseas minister –, elected deputy of the 2nd constituency of Guadeloupe in 2017, under a various left label before approaching the MoDem, Justine Benin defended her record during the campaign: three hundred and sixty-eight amendments tabled, including fifty adopted, and fourteen parliamentary reports published. She praised the April 2021 law on water governance in Guadeloupe, the report of the parliamentary commission of inquiry on chlordecone, of which she was the rapporteur, in 2019, but also a subject of medical cooperation with Cuba, among others. The Secretary of State may have suffered from the strong anti-Macron vote which was expressed in the presidential election. The candidate of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had then totaled 56.1% of the votes in the first round, while the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, had gathered 69.6% of the votes in the second round against to Emmanuel Macron. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Legislative 2022: overseas, local politics regains its rights Political Service