Lionel Gougelot (in Lille), edited by Solène Leroux 9:45 p.m., June 20, 2022

For the first time, a deputy from the National Rally was elected on Sunday evening in Lille.

It's Victor Catteau, a 27-year-old lawyer.

He beat a candidate from Nupes, after the elimination in the first round of the outgoing LR and the Macronist candidate.

He thus seized a constituency reputed to be impregnable.

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The National Rally is expanding its influence in all Hauts-de-France, especially the North, with five new deputies.

This is also the first time that an RN candidate has been elected in the Lille metropolis.

His name is Victor Catteau.

He is a 27-year-old lawyer.

He beat a candidate from Nupes on Sunday, after the elimination in the first round of the legislative elections of the outgoing LR and the Macronist candidate.

Anyone who claims to belong to the marine generation thus seizes a constituency reputed to be impregnable.

"The establishment that we have put in place for years is now bearing fruit", he assures the microphone of Europe 1.

According to him, "the republican fronts, set up for so many years, no longer work today".

The newly elected insists: "The voters have demonstrated that today, the only opposition facing Emmanuel Macron, are the deputies of the National Rally."

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"Kicking the Anthill"

To establish the National Rally for the first time in the Lille metropolis, this new figure of the Lepenist party first seduced an anti-Macron electorate, according to Anthony, a sympathetic boss of a café.

"What we hear a lot is the insecurity that comes back, the lack of purchasing power," he explains.

"We really heard people who wanted opposition to Emmanuel Macron. They wanted to kick the anthill."

In this constituency held by a Republican for 20 years, some, like Marie-Andrée, retired, have chosen to tilt the Nupes / RN duel in favor of Marine Le Pen.

"I had read her program, and she also has good things," she says.

"Me, I say: 'And why not? Come on, we give Victor the chance and that he does his whole mandate.'

I wish him all the best!"

The young deputy will enter the Palais Bourbon on Wednesday.

In the meantime, he is busy organizing his next new life as a parliamentarian.