Marie-Luce Penchard, former overseas minister of Nicolas Sarkozy and legislative candidate for the 4th constituency of Guadeloupe supported by the presidential party, announced on Tuesday June 14 that she was withdrawing her candidacy for the second round.
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In a post on Facebook, the candidate supported by Renaissance, the new name of La République en Marche, denounces “a world” where reign “too much pretense, insincerity, personal calculations to the detriment, very often, of the general interest”without specifying his accusations. “The conditions were no longer met to continue the adventure” in the second round, she judges. Arrival second Sunday, the daughter of Lucette Michaux-Chevry, herself minister of Jacques Chirac, explains giving up not by “weakness”but by “political maturity” and “realism”.
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This surprise withdrawal should lead to the de facto victory of his competitor, Elie Califer, mayor of the commune of Saint-Claude and PS candidate. He had collected 38.61% of the vote in the first round, against 19.88% for Ms. Penchard. The local PS castigated the withdrawal of Marie-Luce Penchard as “a damaging blow to democracy”depriving voters “of the confrontation of ideas to which they were entitled”. In the 4th district, the outgoing deputy, Hélène Vainqueur-Christophe (PS), did not represent herself.