“Did they really think that people would forget” … the two LREM deputies swept from the northern districts of Marseille

The end of the mandate is brutal for Saïd Ahamada and Alexandra Louis, the two LREM deputies from the northern districts of Marseille, cruelly beaten on Sunday evening, at the end of the first of the legislative elections. Both elected in 2017, carried by the Macron wave, they were defeated five years later, victims “of Emmanuel Macron’s policy more than of their actions as deputies”, estimates Mohamed Bensaada (Nupes), who reaches, in head (27.73%), the second round for a duel against the RN in the 3rd district of Bouches-du-Rhône, that of Alexandra Louis. Victims also of the union of the left carried out after the results of the presidential election. Because with 21.87%, the outgoing MP achieves a score that is certainly three points lower than her 2017 total, but which would have allowed her to climb to the second round in a similar configuration.

The case of Saïd Ahamada is on paper slightly different. In 2017, he qualified with 19.86% of the vote, ahead of Sébastien Jibrayel, current sports assistant for the town hall of Marseille, by three points, who was competing for the PS. But with his 15.80% this Sunday, Saïd Ahamada would not have reached the second round. A fall of four points which confirms the rejection aroused by the policy of the outgoing legislature. “We understand that in 2017, Emmanuel Macron’s candidates had benefited from the dynamic of a new man that he embodied, and in a way, it was logical”, thinks Arezki Selloum, the RN candidate of the 7th constituency, qualified for the second round (23.19%). “But we have since seen: purchasing power, yellow vests, suspended caregivers …”, he engages. For Sébastien Delogu (Nupes), who will feature with his 37.86% in the 7th constituency, this shows that voters have memory. “Did they really think that people would forget that they voted to lower the APL”, he asks.

Two new MPs no matter what

In these two constituencies bringing together some of the poorest neighborhoods of Marseille, RN and Nupes will fight two duels and will send, whatever happens on June 19, two new deputies to the National Assembly. With a clear advantage for the Nupes candidate in the 7th constituency, especially since outgoing MP Saïd Ahamada called on social networks to “beat the National Rally candidates next Sunday”. In the other constituency of the northern districts of Marseille, the duel promises to be tighter, with two candidates neck and neck and a Marine Le Pen who had totaled 49.25% of the votes in the second round of the presidential election. A configuration for which Alexandra Louis did not speak. This Monday until the end of the day, neither of the two outgoing LREM candidates was reachable, caught up in a brutal electoral reality.

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