Who will La Creuse send to the benches of the National Assembly? The June legislative elections are preparing, the day after Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the second round of the presidential election. The outgoing LREM deputy, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, intends to return for a second term. He will have to face the right, the left, but also the National Rally which achieves a very good score with 48% of the votes in Creuse.
The LREM deputy from Creuse “relieved” but “aware of the challenge”
After this second round, Jean-Baptiste Moreau says to himself “relieved and happy”even if Emmanuel Macron was elected with two million fewer votes than in 2017. The deputy for Creuse is aware of the challenge what the legislative elections represent in two months. He explains : “We must now give a majority to the President of the Republic in order to be able to apply the program that we defended during this presidential election. It is essential that in the next five years, the country is not plunged into immobility and conservatism because we have before us issues of national reconciliation, more solidarity, more purchasing power, but also to fight against climate change and for ecological transition. we know it, and we have a heavy responsibility in the coming months.”
Far from boasting, he notes that “the far right has made a lot of progress, the extremes have made a lot of progress and we have to be clear, we have our share of responsibility, we have to assume it”. He wants to convince that extremes are not “never a solution” and “lead to dead ends” : “We have to convince on our program, on solidarity at the source, on the increase in the minimum old age, on the indexation of pensions on inflation, on support at the level of purchasing power with the reduction of taxes .”
Candidate for re-election alongside Vincent Turpinat, the deputy of Creuse knows that the fight will be tough : “There will be very serious opponents, whether for the Republicans or the Socialist Party. A priori Cyril Victor and Etienne Lejeune: they are opponents that I respect and who will be difficult.”
Is there a chance to be appointed agriculture minister in the next government? He smiles : “It’s not me who decides, it will be the future prime minister. I don’t dream about it every morning while shaving. I tell you frankly, if I am re-elected deputy of Creuse, I would be very happy. “
The representative of the RN in Creuse “disappointed”
On the side of the National Rally, it is disappointment that dominates the day after the second round of the presidential election for Sylvie Bilde, the departmental delegate: “I really expected her to win this time. What was missing were the abstainers who did not move. Emmanuel Macron did everything to demonize the RN and scare people.” The only consolation: good score of the RN in Creuse, with 48% of the vote : “It remains a historic score in the department, it is still very positive.”
How does she see the five-year term that is beginning? “We are going to end up again with a president who will again be contemptuous and arrogant with all the French people, the loss of our freedoms, a social breakdown and a tax drain, rurality completely forgotten, caregivers again despised, insecurity, judicial laxity.”
Sylvie Bilde therefore embarks on the battle for the legislative elections : “I am a candidate in our beautiful department of Creuse for the legislative elections, we will do what is necessary so that I represent Creuse in the National Assembly. I am in full preparation of my program.” She does not envisage an alliance with the party of Eric Zemmourwho nevertheless called for a “union of patriots”, from Debout la France to Reconquête via the RN: “I’ll go alone.”
In 2017, Marine Le Pen’s party sent only eight deputies to the National Assembly.