“It will not be a second round on June 27, it will be a new first round”, announces Fabien Gay (PCF). Widely left behind by the right-wing pair, Sunday evening, the Communist senator, who presents himself alongside Sandrine Hedel (Republican and united Left), calls for “a Republican surge in the working-class neighborhoods” in order to reverse the results that he sees. are unfavorable.
During the first round of these departmental elections, the abstention rate rose to over 76% in the canton of Blanc-Mesnil. “The abstention is high, like everywhere”, tempers Vijay Monany (DVD). Candidate alongside Angela Segura (DVD), the outgoing departmental councilor, also chief of staff to the mayor of Blanc-Mesnil Thierry Meignen (Libres!), Won 54.40% of the votes cast.
A “historic” result, reacts the person concerned, which is partly explained by “the excellent record” of Thierry Meignen and Valérie Pécresse (Libres!), The president of the region. “We collect 54% of the votes, including 56% in Blanc-Mesnil [NDLR : le canton comprend aussi une partie de Drancy], while six pairs were candidates, he welcomes. We leave the PCF at more than thirty points and we are in the lead in all the polling stations in the canton. “
So follow, far behind, the candidates of the united left Gay-Hedel (22.63%), the ticket without label Christine Comayras-Pierre Marie Perrin (7.53%) … and two pairs of 7.35% and 6, 50%, which the vanquished agree to present as “dummy” or “bogus”. Their posters, without any face, put forward “the true left” and “responsible ecology”.
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“People told us that they thought they had voted no by slipping a green ballot in the ballot box, breathes Fabien Gay. This is why another election begins next Sunday, cleared of all false candidacies. “
False applications? “Rumors”, sweeps Vijay Monany, who believes that the two pairs in question are the symptom of the division on the left. And which recalls the “false candidacy”, earlier in the campaign, of a pair labeled LR.
Coming in third position, Pierre-Marie Perrin deplores the multiple “intimidations” suffered during the campaign, which he attributes to the right-wing majority. The former chief of staff of the mayor Thierry Meignen also underlines that “the result of Vijay Monany is in trompe-l’oeil, because it collects 1000 votes less than in 2015”. He refuses to speak out in favor of one of the two pairs still in the running.
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