In fifth place, de Rugy (LREM) evokes a “big disappointment”

He arrived on Sunday in 5th position at the head of the LREM list in Pays-de-la-Loire. Visibly moved, François de Rugy, recognized this Sunday evening “a big disappointment” and announced that he was staying for the second round of the regional. François de Rugy obtained 11.1% of the vote (according to an initial estimate by the Ipsos / Sopra Steria polling institute) behind the candidate of the National Rally Hervé Juvin (11.9%).

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“I say this tonight obviously bluntly, it’s a big disappointment for the presidential majority, it’s a big disappointment in the Pays-de-la-Loire region, it’s a big disappointment in all of the regions of France ”, declared François de Rugy at the Hôtel de Région in Nantes.

He maintains his candidacy

“The presidential majority is still a young movement, is still a movement which has difficulty in nationally embodying a clear line, a political project, a clear political identity and, moreover, the presidential majority has very little relay among the local elected officials” , he analyzed.

He will therefore face in the second round the outgoing president Christelle Morancais (LR), who came first, a union list of the ecologist Matthieu Orphelin and the socialist Guillaume Garot, and that of the RN Hervé Juvin. “Next Sunday, two camps will face each other: a right with a high score and which benefits from the outgoing bonus, and a left divided on ideas but united in the electoral conquest,” he said.

The right asked him to desist, it will not be the case. “Many voters do not identify with it: for them, the list I am leading will be present in the second round. It is useful that there is a force of balance which allows to temper the excesses of the future majority, whatever it is. I will be there to constitute a group of progressive elected representatives, who will act constructively and to promote the ideas of progress that I have defended. “