France: four very symbolic partial legislative elections
Brigitte Bourguignon, at the National Assembly on May 22, 2018 as a deputy, before becoming a member of the government.
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This Sunday is the first round of four partial legislative elections in France.
Votes which should attract very few voters, elected deputies will indeed sit barely a year before having to put their mandate back into play. But several of these votes have symbolic value.
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Brigitte Bourguignon had left her seat with confidence to her deputy last summer on the occasion of her entry into the government.
But he finally threw in the towel and here is the Minister in charge of Autonomy forced to relaunch the campaign.
Except that after multiple postponements due to the health crisis, his re-election seems perilous: his constituency of Pas-de-Calais is in fact ogled by the National Gathering which benefits from a strong dynamic with the regional campaign.
The right also dreams of inflicting a setback on Emmanuel Macron who is doing everything to break the Elysian ambitions
of regional president Xavier Bertrand
.
The Dassault want to keep their riding
In Paris, the battle of the lefts for the presidential leadership has for its part interfered in the partial legislative of the 20th arrondissement.
A stronghold of the socialist party threatened by the rebellious Danièle Simonnet and the ecologist Antoinette Ghul.
Finally in the Oise, it is an industrial dynasty which seeks to maintain its political anchoring: after the
accidental death of Olivier Dassault
, heir to the aeronautical and military group, his nephew, Victor Habert-Dassault hopes to keep the constituency in the fold of the family.
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