First local activists of the National Rally sidelined in favor of Republican candidates
The agreement between The Republicans (LR) of Eric Ciotti and the National Rally (RN) has not yet been formalized, but it is already being felt in the constituencies. Since Tuesday, the first instructions have begun to reach the departmental delegates of the RN, excluding certain local activists.
Thus, according to Eric Ciotti’s entourage, the LR-RN alliance will invest in the 9e constituency of Hérault a former president of “Young people with Sarkozy”, Charles-Henri Alloncle. Having passed through Sciences-Po and HEC, this co-founder of a financial start-up has abandoned politics since 2019 and a defeat in the Young Republicans election. He could not be reached by The world. The 9e Hérault constituency, whose largest city is Lunel, has been held since 2012 by Renaissance deputy Patrick Vignal. Its RN candidate in 2022, eliminated in the first round by 80 votes, is none other than Frédéric Bort, the former chief of staff of the mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot. Dismissed in February, the man also lost his position as departmental delegate of the RN. In short, Frédéric Bort, who was for a long time the chief of staff of the president of Languedoc-Roussillon, Georges Frêche, is no longer in the odor of sanctity at the Parisian headquarters.
“I would appreciate that the opening that we can make within the framework of this agreement also allows sailors to exist”he said to Worldcertain that “everything can still move”. “The panic of this situation must not lead us to lose the electoral and sociological reality of the constituencies”, believes Frédéric Bort, for whom the chances of success of an LR candidate are very low. Especially since the head of the local LR, in frank disagreement with Eric Ciotti, could want to align independent right-wing candidates in each constituency.
Among the RN candidates, another disappointed person appeared on social networks on Wednesday: Damien Obrador, regional councilor of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and candidate in 2022 in the 9e Gironde constituency. He was eliminated by 400 votes in the Langon constituency, held by Sophie Mette (MoDem) since 2017. “After achieving a historic score during the legislative elections in 2022 and after ten years of local mandate in my constituency, where I am the only elected official from our movement, another candidate was preferred to me by the CNI [commission nationale d’investiture]. Despite the harshness of this announcement, I welcome it with respect”, wrote the one who is today a parliamentary assistant to an RN deputy. The identity of the new candidate was not specified, but the RN had appointed a new constituency manager, Jean-Luc Roeder, six months ago. Sunday June 9, Jordan Bardella came first in 87 of the 88 municipalities in the constituency.