Several personalities criticize Beauvau for not having counted votes from the union of the left, in favor of Together!.
“They cheated.The first dissatisfactions are heard. Sunday evening, June 12, the first round of the legislative elections placed the presidential majority and Nupes in the lead. On the basis of the first estimates, the two political parties engaged in a battle to know who of one or the other would come out on top in this high-stakes election. Late at night, it’s finally Together! that the official results placed very slightly ahead, with 25.75% of the vote against 25.66% for Nupes. That is a difference of some 21,000 votes.
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But these figures do not suit the artisans of the union of the left. Around three o’clock in the morning, the Nupes candidate from the South-East, Manuel Bompard, thus sounded the “new manipulation alert Darmanin”. “While Nupes achieves 6,101,968 votes (i.e. 26.8%), the Ministry of the Interior only gives it 5,836,202 votes (i.e. 25.7%) to artificially make Macron’s party appear in the lead“, he explained, before questioning the Council of State. This Monday on BFM TVJean-Luc Mélenchon himself believes that there isa doubt about what exactly Mr. Darmanin is doing with the results“. He questions what power is.able to do to manipulate the results“. For the leader of the Nupes, “you can’t have banana republic mores like that in France“.
At the microphone of France Info this Monday morning, the ecologist David Cormand also criticized the official figures of the ministry published Sunday evening. According to him, “they made an apothecary’s calculation“, not counting all the voters who voted for Nupes, especially in the Overseas Territories, where the parties were designated by their original label (socialists, ecologists, etc.) or as being”various left“. “they cheatedhe hammered. But they had already cheated by refusing to put on a Nupes shade“, before it was imposed by the Council of State. “We understand better, moreover, since yesterday evening, whyadded the MEP.
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“It all doesn’t matter“, then swept the chosen one. which considers that “it doesn’t honor politics“. “But I don’t care“, he continued, because “the reality is that it is the worst score of a presidential party for a legislative which follows a presidential election. It means that there is no popular expectation of Emmanuel Macron, no momentum“.
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In turn, the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, affirmed that “several constituencies have not been counted in France and overseas“. The elected explains that these candidates did not have the label, but that they are now supported by the Nupes in the second round, increasing the number of constituencies with qualification of the Nupes to 406.It’s an artificial way to have the macronie a little higher“, she concluded.
The government defended itself. On France Interthe Minister of Public Accounts and qualified candidate in the 10th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine, Gabriel Attal, criticized his competitors for putting “systematically questioning all the figures, whether it’s elections, our economy, (…), it’s a specialty with them.” According to him, “when you look at the Nupes agreement, and those officially invested, there were no overseas candidates. There was a plurality of left-wing candidates, several of whom claimed to be Nupes“. He assures that this also applies to the presidential majority, where certain candidates “not declared in the prefecture Together!were not counted.
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