Paris (AFP)

The favorite LREM, PS, UDI and LR candidates before the second round of four partial legislative elections in Pas-de-Calais, Oise, Paris and Indre-et-Loire were elected on Sunday in polls marked by a very low participation.

In the twentieth arrondissement of the capital, a constituency deeply rooted on the left, the socialist Lamia El Aaraje won with 56.56% of the votes over the rebellious Danielle Simonnet (43.44%).

They clashed without having received the support of other candidates eliminated in the first round, the ecologist Antoinette Guhl having left her voters free of their choice, just like the Communist candidate Thomas Roger.

In the 3rd district of Indre-et-Loire, where only 18.25% of the voters turned out, Sophie Métadier, mayor of Beaulieu-lès-Loches invested by the UDI and LR and supported by LREM, obtained 62, 93% of the votes against the socialist Murielle Riolet (37.07%).

Like two of the other three elected on Sunday, she is preparing to take her first steps as a parliamentarian.

The election was caused by the resignation of MP Sophie Auconie (UDI) for health reasons.

She had delighted the constituency from the former socialist minister Marisol Touraine in 2017.

In the 1st district of Oise, unsurprisingly, a change of head but (almost) no name: Olivier Dassault's nephew - who accidentally died in March in the accident of his helicopter - beat very widely (80.41 % against 19.59%) the candidate RN Claire Marais-Beuil, against a background of participation at half mast, with 24.34% registered.

In the first round, Victor Habert-Dassault (LR) came out ahead with 58.44% of the vote, despite accusations of "parachuting" on the land where his uncle had been a member since 2002, his rival garnering 15.27 % voices.

The 28-year-old still had to face a second round, due to the very low participation.

Finally in the 6th district of Pas-de-Calais, the minister LREM Brigitte Bourguignon brought to the presidential majority its first victory in a partial legislative. Faced with RN candidate Marie-Christine Bourgeois, the Deputy Minister for Autonomy won 62.05% of the vote, in a ballot where the turnout was even lower than in the first round, at 23.99% . Because of his presence in the government, it is Ms. Bourguignon's deputy, Christophe Leclercq, who will sit in the National Assembly.

The walker, elected for the first time MP for Pas-de-Calais in 2012 under the PS label, benefited from the indirect support of the ex-LR president of the Region, Xavier Bertrand, who, at the end of the first round, had called for "blocking the FN".

Marine Le Pen retaliated by accusing him of being an "auxiliary" for Emmanuel Macron.

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