Jacques Serais 6:09 a.m., June 17, 2022, modified at 6:10 a.m., June 17, 2022

To make up for his six-point delay on the Nupes candidate Léa Balage El Mariky, Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, and General Delegate of the Republic on the move, Stanislas Guerini, is working hard and increasing towing operations in the 3rd district of Paris.

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Last day of campaigning for candidates in the legislative elections.

Tension is rising in some constituencies, such as in the 3rd district of Paris where Minister Stanislas Guérini and Léa Balage El Mariky, candidate of the New Popular Ecology and Social Union (Nupes), face off in the second round.

In the first round, it was even the left-wing candidate who came out on top, six points ahead of Stanislas Guerini.

The outgoing deputy, also Minister of Transformation and the public service, and delegate general of the Republic on the move is not guaranteed to win.

"I want to continue"

It's a triple hat that makes him a target of choice for the left alliance and Stanislas Guerini knows it.

In this last straight line, leaflets in hand at the exit of the metro, the boss of the presidential party, refuses to display any excitement.

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"I am combative because an election is won by showing that you want to! And I want to continue!", explains the candidate for his succession before continuing: "I am quite convinced that in our constituency, there is a majority for Europe, a majority for work, a majority for order which will allow me to go and convince, to gather widely on Sunday evening".

Two diametrically opposed projects

A few streets away, the candidate of the left alliance, Léa Balage El Mariky, is also in the midst of a towing operation.

Member of Europe Ecology Les Verts, she does not want to make her opponent a symbol.

"Whether it's Stanislas Guérini or someone else who presents himself, I will go with the same desire to win!"

assures this elected official of the 18th arrondissement of the capital.

"To have a victory that will allow us to go and set up the thermal renovation of housing. We are experiencing a peak heat wave and in fact there in our housing, we can no longer sleep because tonight it will way too hot," she says.

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The two candidates do not directly attack each other, but claim radically different projects.