Former Budget Minister and LR executive Eric Woerth is also the majority candidate in Oise.
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The presidential majority presented, Thursday, May 5, the list of the first candidates invested for the legislative elections. Mentioned are former Prime Minister Manuel Valls (5th constituency of French people living abroad), government spokesman Gabriel Attal (10th constituency of Hauts-de-Seine) and National Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer (4th district of Loiret).
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Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is running in the 10th district of the North, which includes part of the city of Tourcoing, of which he was mayor. The Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne is also a candidate (6th district of Calvados), as is the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune (7th district of Paris), or the Secretary of State for Pensions, Laurent Pietraszewski (11th constituency of the North). Former Budget Minister and LR executive Eric Woerth is a candidate under the colors of Ensemble (in his stronghold of the 4th district of Oise).
In this “first wave” of 187 candidates, the presidential majority puts forward 94 women and 93 men, 101 outgoing deputies and 86 new candidates, 43 local elected officials and 43 from civil society. The average age of these candidates is 49: the youngest is 27 (Solène Gibault in the 3rd constituency of Orne), and the oldest is 77 (outgoing MP Monique Iborra in the 6th constituency of Haute-Garonne).
As soon as the list was unveiled, dissent emerged. Stéphane Vojetta, current LREM deputy in the constituency targeted by Manuel Valls, announced Thursday evening to be a candidate for his “own succession, but still in support of Emmanuel Macron”. “Many of us are surprised by the investiture of Manuel Valls in the 5th constituency of French people living abroad. Me, the first”, he wrote in a press releasedenouncing “the parachute drops and other jolts of ‘the old world’.“