Julien Lassalle is officially a candidate to succeed his brother Jean. The outgoing Béarnais deputy not representing himself, his younger brother has decided to replace him and run for the fourth constituency of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He formalized his candidacy this Monday, May 9 from Oloron-Sainte-Marie.
Return to politics
The former shepherd of Lourdios-Ichère, like his brother, will therefore try to keep the Basque-Béarnaise constituency in the Lassalle clan. He does not hide it, the example of his eldest Jean largely influenced this decision: “I remained a shepherd for forty years, I spent my life next to someone who was involved in politics, I observed and I saw the setbacks and also the good sides”.
It’s not not a first attempt in politics for Julien Lassalle since he had presented himself in the last regional elections under the label “Let’s Resist”, the party of Jean Lassalle. He had obtained nearly 14% of the votes in the department. Julien Lassalle indicated, under his priorities, that he was going “fight against the opening up of rural areas, whether by road, rail, IT or medical”.
Applications are becoming clearer
In the 4th constituency, facing Julien Lassalle, there is the candidate of the left Inaki Echaniz, invested by the new union party Nupes (new popular ecological and social union). But the ecologist Julien Brunel, already in the countryside for several months, announced that he was maintaining. Annick Trounday, a psychologist in Bayonne, will represent the presidential majority and the Renaissance party (formerly LREM). No candidate on the side of the Republicans. Josiane Lopez is invested for the National Rally, and a newcomer, Margaux Taillefer, for the Reconquest party of Eric Zemmour. The animal rights party will also field a candidate, Paul Darnet, director of sales in the medical sector.