Legislative 2022. A bitter failure for Richard Ferrand in Finistère – Ouest-France local editions

It’s a thunderclap in Finistère. He does not come from Brest, but from the seventy municipalities of the Center-Finistère district. Richard Ferrand, president of the National Assembly, deputy since 2012, was beaten on the evening of the second round of the legislative elections. He is preceded by Mélanie Thomin, candidate of the Socialist Party (PS), invested by the New popular ecological and social union (Nupes). She won 50.85% of the vote (804 votes). On the evening of the first round, it was 1,200 votes behind. The choice made by the union of the left to entrust the constituency to the PS has therefore paid off. Remember that Richard Ferrand was elected in 2012 with this label. “I send my congratulations” Richard Ferrand awaited the results in his local countryside of Châteaulin, this Sunday. The day before, his team had warned that the candidate would not pour out in front of the media. In fact, on Sunday, the ex-fourth personage of the State, as if struck, spoke only forty seconds in front of the numerous media present. “I take note of the results. I wanted to thank those who came to my name and that of Annaïck Morvan, my substitute. And I want to send my congratulations to the one who won this evening and wish for her, for France and for our territory, every success,” he said. The United Left candidate, Mélanie Thomin, was still unknown to the general public a few weeks ago. This 37-year-old teacher, elected in the municipality of Hanvec, has achieved a feat. “The candidacy that I am carrying was that of an unexpected, spontaneous, mobilizing elbow-to-elbow,” she said. For the outgoing deputy, President of the National Assembly since 2018, neither the support committee of sixty-seven local elected or former elected officials, nor the weekly presence in the field for ten years, nor his attentive ear to the projects of the territory n will have sufficed. The “anti-Macron” protest vote worked against him. Just like for Christophe Castaner, Florian Bachelier, or even the Ministers of Health Brigitte Bourguignon, and Ecological Transition Amélie de Montchalin, other relatives of the President of the Republic defeated yesterday by the ballot box. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne took note of this setback last night: “This situation constitutes a risk for our country. But this vote, we must respect it and draw the consequences. We will work tomorrow to build a majority of action. » Legislative 2022. A bitter failure for Richard Ferrand in FinistèreENLARGE