The regret of the first round is still present for Jean Lassalle. Guest of Midi News on CNEWS this Tuesday, April 12, the Résistons candidate returned to the result of the ballot, not hiding his disappointment.
If he was one of the surprises of this election by collecting 3.1% of the votes, the equivalent of more than 1 million voters, the objective was quite different for the deputy. “I wanted to be President of the French Republic”.
The latter felt that his ability to play on his “wisdom”, his “experience and his touch of madness”, could “touch this country to the heart”.
A failure that Jean Lassalle relativized, then analyzed. According to him, some of his voters would have been “democratically robbed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon at the last moment”. A substantial loss to which he added “5 to 6 points from the abstainers”.
A blank vote in the second round
Throughout the campaign, Jean Lassalle denounced the lack of debates, in particular of the president candidate Emmanuel Macron. From this resentment, the candidate of the Résistons party indicated that he would vote blank in the second round, without choosing between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
“I leave to all those who have trusted me their free choice for Sunday April 24. Personally, I will vote blank,” he wrote in his press release.
His presidential campaign behind him, Jean Lassalle will be a candidate for a fifth consecutive term as deputy in the legislative elections on 12th and 19th June.