Legislative: four qualified candidates for the second round give up running

Europe 1 with AFP 6:15 p.m., June 15, 2022

In the second round of legislative elections on Sunday, some candidates will compete ... against themselves.

Four qualified have indeed decided to withdraw.

Two others, engaged in triangular, saw their party's support withdrawn but did not agree to withdraw.

Three candidates from the left alliance Nupes will be alone in the second round and therefore guaranteed to win, after the withdrawal of their rivals.

Clémentine Autain re-elected in Seine-Saint-Denis

In the second constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, the various left candidate Virginie de Carvalho withdrew in favor of the outgoing and candidate Nupes Clémentine Autain, who came first with 46.15% of the vote.

With 14.83%, Virginie de Carvalho decided not to "oppose the Nupes candidate", she wrote on Facebook on June 13.

Still in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the 4th district, it is the mayor of Stains and dissident PCF Azzedine Taïbi who withdraws, despite his 21.43%.

The communist invested by Nupes Soumya Bourouaha came out on top with 36.13% of the vote.

"The conditions were no longer met to continue the adventure"

In Guadeloupe, Elie Califer PS mayor of Saint-Claude, invested by Nupes in the fourth constituency, will be alone in the second round.

Marie-Luce Penchard, ex-Minister of Overseas under Nicolas Sarkozy, supported by the presidential majority, decided to withdraw after having gathered 19.88% of the votes.

"The conditions were no longer met to continue the adventure," she explains in a Facebook post.

In the first constituency of Lot-et-Garonne, the candidate Nupes Maryse Combres strictly applied the Republican front.

Arriving in third position with 26.21% of the vote, she decided to withdraw her candidacy in favor of the presidential majority candidate Michel Lauzzana (29.64%) against RN Sébastien Delbosq (27.84%).

The "dangerous presence of a far-right candidate does not allow us to calmly maintain a candidacy", she writes.

An alliance game in favor of the Nupes

In the second constituency of Lot-et-Garonne, on the other hand, there is no question of withdrawing for the presidential majority candidate Alexandre Freschi, against his rivals RN and Nupes, despite his third position with 25.62% of the votes cast.

Mr. Freschi was disconnected by the national leadership of Ensemble!.

In the second of Nièvre, Marie-Anne Guillemain, for Nupes, who decided to maintain herself against her rivals from RN and Ensemble!.

EELV and the PCF withdrew their support.