• The outgoing president of the Grand-Est region Jean Rottner (LR) was elected with more than 40% of the votes.

  • He is ahead of Laurent Jacobelli (RN), behind by nearly 13 points.

  • Environmentalist Eliane Romani takes the podium with around 21% of the vote, allowing environmentalists to enter the region's headquarters.

  • Minister Brigitte Klinkert failed to assert the presidential majority and renewed her score in the first round, ie around 12% of the vote.

An election in an armchair with more than 40% of the votes.

There was hardly any suspense for this second round of regional elections in the Grand-Est, as Jean Rottner (LR), outgoing president, had already taken the lead in the first round on Sunday, June 20 with 10 points of ahead of his pursuer the candidate of RN Laurent Jacobelli.

He won this election this evening and distance Laurent Jacobelli RN (28%), the ecologist Eliane Romani, more than 20% and the minister Brigitte Klinkert (12%).

Jean Rottner keeps the victory modest

The candidate Jean Rottner, finally elected on June 27 with more than 40% of the vote, had refused to merge his list to beat the National Rally, its pursuer. Even less with the one that was expected: the list of Minister Brigitte Klinkert (LREM). Klinkert therefore held on in the second round and slightly improved his score with around 12% of the vote. What to have about fifteen elected to the Region.

This Sunday evening, we remained modest at the HQ of the candidate LR in Strasbourg after a clear victory but an abstention rate which is close to 70%.

Jean Rottner declared in particular to have been "placed at the head of a complicated ballot, of an abstention which nobody can be satisfied" and which "obliges to be as close as possible to the concerns" of the fellow citizens, "to build the best" for each, "to restore confidence.

"To the applause, the elected especially launched, to the address of those who want the end of the Great East, that this result" nevertheless illustrates a will.

That of being in the present and not dwelling on postures from the past that the population does not want.

They put us in the lead because remaking the game of the past and the administrative redistribution no longer makes sense in their eyes.

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The RN distanced

The result in the first round of candidate RN Laurent Jacobelli, 21% of the vote, already suggested a disappointment.

Still second on June 27 with a little less than 27% of the vote, he benefited from a postponement of the votes of the Patriots of Florian Philippot.

Insufficient anyway.

The RN will lose many positions in the future regional assembly because its score is much lower than that of 2015 (36%).

However, the RN remains “the first, determined and resolute opponent” with 34 elected representatives from the Region, underlines Laurent Jacobelli.

Opponents who "will mark the pants" the team in place.

Green people making their return to the regional assembly

Eliane Romani had not wished to make an alliance either, despite a certain rapprochement with Aurélie Filippetti's Unpublished Appeal on the evening of the first election.

With less than 21% of the vote, a result that is not up to that expected, indicated on the set of France 3 Eliane Romani, the ecologists have enough to return to the headquarters of the Region.

They had left since 2015. Environmentalists denounced this Sunday evening a "total disorganization" about the distribution of professions of faith, sometimes "missing", poorly distributed, "missing ballots".

Worried about "the impact of this disorganization on the results" and which "could call into question the sincerity of the ballot", they could even file appeals.

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