Emmanuel Macron’s candidates are preceded in 12 of the 18 constituencies of the capital by Nupes. The political landscape of the capital is totally turned upside down. The right is threatened with extinction and Anne Hidalgo seems totally isolated.
How to turn gold into a bar? The results of the first round of the legislative elections illustrate the electoral decline of Macronie. After having collected 85% of the votes in the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron sees his supporters threatened by the Nupes. The left version Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes first in 12 of the 18 constituencies. Three deputies have already been elected in the first round: the neo-candidates Sophia Chikirou and Sarah Legrain but also the outgoing Danièle Obono, re-elected with more than 57% of the votes in the 18th. After the Macronist tsunami in 2017 which swept away the right and the socialists (13 out of 18 constituencies), a triumph next Sunday for the Nupes is possible. A Bolivarian wind blows on the capital including in the beautiful districts like the 4e borough ! The Melenchonist alliance could win up to 12 seats, leaving the President’s “Together” coalition with 4 to 6 constituencies in western Paris. One more proof that macronism, at least in Paris, has swung sociologically to the center right.
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Ministers, close to Macron, in danger
Symbol of this seizure of power in the capital, the difficult ballotages for two of the three ministers vying in this battle. Stanislas Guérini, Minister of Public Service and outgoing deputy, is ahead of ecologist Léa Balage El Mariky by six points. Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate for Europe and candidate for the first time in an election, knows a perilous baptism of fire in the center of Paris where he is preceded by the lawyer Insoumise Caroline Mecary. Only spokesperson Olivia Grégoire seems certain to return for a second term. She will face a communist candidate in the second round. A surprise in the most bourgeois part of the 15th arrondissement. Additional sign of the Nupes wave. It also seems complicated for Pierre-Yves Bournazel, leaving Agir and protected by Edouard Philippe, who called Bertrand Delanoë for help to block the former journalist who became and anti-species activist Aymeric Caron who came first in the first round on the hill. Montmartre!
Hidalgo surrounded by environmentalists and rebels
Because what is striking in the list of candidates for Nupes is their radicalism, whether they are rebellious (Obono, Chikirou, Mecary, Caron, etc.) or the ecologists Sandrine Rousseau and Julien Bayou, both well placed to win. . In the socialist stronghold of Anne Hidalgo, radicalism pays. The mayor of Paris still had a very bad evening. The candidates, whom she supported, were beaten in the first round or do not seem able to win in the second. This is the case of the outgoing Lamia El Aaraje clearly outdistanced by the Insoumise Danielle Simonet. It will also be difficult for Olivia Polski who came first by a short header in the 6e and 14e district facing the Modem Maud Gatel. But the latter has greater reserves of votes than its socialist opponent. After having collected a pitiful 2% of the votes in the presidential election, Anne Hidalgo will find herself increasingly isolated in her Town Hall surrounded by rebels and environmentalists. This promises for the rest of the socialist’s mandate.
The right threatened with extinction
Long a dominant force in the capital, the right continues its irresistible decline. The death knell could even sound for the LR candidates. Only two candidates made it through the first round. The right is once again eliminated in its bourgeois strongholds of the 7e and 15e. Bad news for Rachida Dati, leader of the Parisian right. The star of the TV evenings does not manage for the moment to raise his camp. The right could even disappear next Sunday: the outgoing Brigitte Kuster is ahead of 12 points by the walker Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet in the 17e and the mayor of 16e Francis Szpiner is 6 points behind Benjamin Haddad, researcher and walker who created the surprise. Even on the 16thth could therefore escape the right. A thunderclap for Republicans, already almost wiped off the electoral map in Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines.