The adventure stops there for them. Like the former minister Jean-Michel Blanquer or the former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour, several personalities whose score was particularly watched were eliminated, Sunday, June 12, from the first round of the legislative elections.
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In the fourth constituency of Loiret, for example, Jean-Michel Blanquer, former Minister of National Education, failed to qualify the presidential majority in the second round, according to final results. He is came third with 18.89% of the vote, behind the candidate of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union and that of the National Rally. “The campaign was peppered with important incidents, on several occasions I was targeted by verbal violence” and even “physical”he regretted on France 2.
Eric Zemmour, president of the far-right Reconquête! party, was also eliminated after coming third in the fourth constituency of Var, with 23.19% of the votes cast behind the outgoing deputy LREM and the RN Philippe Lottiaux. This is also the case of Guillaume Peltier, a defector from the Republicans who joined the far-right candidate during the presidential election, eliminated in the 2nd constituency of Loir-et-Cher.
Francis Lalanne, singer and activist close to “yellow vests”, is also eliminated in the third district of Charente. Just like Gérald Dahan, humorist invested by Nupes, in the third district of Charente-Maritime.
A week earlier, Manuel Valls had already been eliminated in the first round, after being invested by the presidential majority to represent the French abroad in Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Monaco. It is a new fiasco for the ex-Prime Minister after the failure of his candidacy for the municipal elections in Barcelona.