In Ille-et-Vilaine, the socialist Jean-Luc Chenut is in a good position to keep his seat. – JEAN-SEBASTIEN EVRARD / AFP
As for the regional ones, the outgoing bonus has rather worked for the departmental elections in Brittany. Three of the four Breton departments (Morbihan, Finistère and Ille-et-Vilaine) should thus retain their outgoing majority on Sunday. In the Côtes-d’Armor, the left can however hope to regain the majority it had lost in 2015 for a few votes. Several cantons of this department chaired by Romain Boutron (LR) will be particularly scrutinized, right and left being neck and neck. The RN obtained for its part 15%, the abstention reaching 60.64%.
Morbihan, led by President LR François Goulard, stayed the course on Sunday in the first round, with more than 39% of the vote on the right, against around 32% for the parties on the left. The FN totaled 14.10% in this department which had the highest abstention in the region, with a rate of 65.19%.
Right and left shoulder to shoulder in Finistère
In Ille-et-Vilaine, no change in sight either. The left is in the process of retaining the majority of this department chaired since 2015 by Jean-Luc Chenut (PS). A large majority of the cantons remained faithful to their choices of the previous elections on Sunday. Socialists and environmentalists gathered in the first round some 47% of the vote, but the vote again was marked by a strong abstention, of 65.15%.
Regional and departmental results
Finally, in Finistère, the second round seems more uncertain, right and left being neck and neck in several cantons. Since 2015, the department, on the left, has been headed by Nathalie Sarrabezolles (PS).