Manuel Valls had been officially invested by the presidential majority, to the detriment of Stéphane Vojetta, outgoing deputy, who nevertheless maintained himself, campaigning as a dissident. It is the latter who qualifies in the second round, against the candidate of Nupes Renaud Le Berre. Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of En Marche, immediately gave him his support on franceinfo.
Manuel Valls, the only LREM candidate to have been released in the first round of the legislative elections: “I want to salute his political courage. Now we must win” and support the dissident Stéphane Vojetta, reacts Stanislas Guerini, Minister of Transformation and Public Service pic.twitter.com/gkZAtvWcSg
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A dissident, who maintains himself, who eliminates the official candidate and for whom En Marche is now campaigning? As soon as the result was known, it was an avalanche of messages on social networks, from other dissidents of the majority, who are running against an invested candidate.
Two things stand out. First, the idea that “Common sense always wins. Voters are not fooled”assert number of dissidents contacted Monday. “This result of French people living abroad demonstrates that nominations or labels do not make the election”writes Aina Kuric in a statement sent to the press in the Marne. “It encourages me so much to fight.”
Aina Kuric is an interesting case because she is in a configuration similar to that of Stéphane Vojetta: an outgoing MP, set aside by En Marche, in this case in favor of a war prize from the right.
Second type of message: dissident or not, everyone will meet in the end. “So don’t be afraid to vote for me.” The argument is deployed in particular by Vincent Léonie, in Haute-Vienne. “When I hear Stanislas Guerini – boss of En Marche – say all behind Vojetta, I have a big smilesaid Leonie, because we all got letters saying we were going to be expelled.” The Spanish case demonstrates that it is enough to be qualified in the second round for it not to be.
“The effective vote is that of the candidate on the ground against the parachuted candidate.”
Vincent Léonie, dissident candidate in the 3rd constituency of Haute-Vienneat franceinfo
“Obviously that gives arguments”also smiles Ronan Loas, who is campaigning in Morbihan.
Difficult to give an exact figure to measure the extent of dissidence in the majority. We know that 87 candidates were excluded from En Marche for this reason. But there are bound to be more dissidents than that, because you have to add those who don’t belong to En Marche, but to one of the allies – the Modem, Horizons – and those who don’t belong to any party.