Alain Rousset is well ahead of the first round of the regional in Nouvelle-Aquitaine – UGO AMEZ / SIPA
The outgoing president in New Aquitaine, Alain Rousset, who is running for a fifth term, comes out ahead on the evening of the first round of regional elections, credited with around 29% of the vote. While it was given neck to neck with the candidate of the national rally Edwige Diaz, it is clearly ahead since it would be about 19%.
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Secretary of State for Veterans Geneviève Darrieussecq, candidate for LREM and Modem, comes in third place with around 13.4%. LR candidate Nicolas Florian achieves a disappointing score with around 12%. The EELV candidate Nicolas Thierry, vice-president of the region during the previous term of office, would be around 11%, and thus double the score of the Greens in 2015 (5.6%). Note also the good score of the candidate of the Mouvement de la Ruralité et Résistons with Jean Lassalle, Eddie Puyjalon, who is credited with 7.7%, when the polls gave it below 5%.
“Now we have to collect [avec les Verts] for the second round ”, reacted Alain Rousset to 20 minutes. Nicolas Thierry, had not yet taken a position Sunday evening, indicating however on France 3 that a “rally can only be built on a common and strong political will. “