The former government parties of the Fifth Republic, on the right and on the left, are the big losers in the first round of the presidential election, which was held on Sunday April 10.
This national phenomenon is confirmed in Chartres, where voters placed Emmanuel Macron (LREM) at the top of the ballot, ahead of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and Marine Le Pen (RN).
A useful vote for Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left
The PS vote, as in 2017, does not take off. Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo won only 358 votes (or 2.1% of the vote) in the prefecture city of Eure-et-Loir.
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In Chartres, Emmanuel Macron is ahead of … Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round
Jacqueline Marre, opposition municipal councilor in Chartres, at the head of the “Chartres on the left” list, during the municipal elections of March 2020, deciphers:
“Many supporters of the PS and the PCF had to vote useful by choosing Jean-Luc Mélenchon. They hoped that he would be in the second round. He did not miss much for that to happen.”
Jacqueline Marre (opposition municipal councilor in Chartres)
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The elected, who is not inserted in a political party, sees in the result of the leader of the Popular Union (22.8% in Chartres) a “message of hope for the future”, she says . “Locally, second place for Jean-Luc Mélenchon makes me happy. This shows that there are things to be done around its claims. »
Fernand Carré, an activist in the Popular Union, went door-to-door during the first-round campaign. “It is important that Jean-Luc Mélenchon arrived in front of the National Rally in Chartres”, notes this railway worker who appeared on the Chartres list on the left, at the municipal elections of 2020.
For Patricia Josse, leader of the action group of the Chartres conurbation at the Insoumis, the score of the boss of LFI “is the result of a lot of work in the field”, especially in districts like that of La Madeleine “where the locals welcomed us,” she says. Has she made her decision for the second round on Sunday April 24?
I don’t need anyone to tell me what to do, not even Jean-Luc Mélenchon! Everyone is an adult and can decide. Me, I will abstain.
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Conversely, Gaël Garreau, municipal councilor (LREM) in Chartres and head of the list On the move! in the last municipal elections, hopes that the voters “will mobilize more in the second round”.
In five years, participation has fallen by 6 points in the capital of Beauce, peaking at 69.51%, Sunday April 10.
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“Emmanuel Macron is doing better than in 2017. It’s a great recognition, but we mustn’t lie to ourselves, the extremes are high, here too. When we add the scores of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour, we arrive at more than 24%”, notes Gaël Garreau, who calls “to unite and unite against the RN”.
For his part, the mayor of Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gorges, does not intend to give voting instructions.
“I am convinced that the French are free, the Chartrains even more. If my voting instructions were really listened to, it is Valérie Pécresse who would have been elected.”
Jean Pierre Gorges (mayor of Chartres)
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For the co-chairman of the support committee for candidate LR in Eure-et-Loir, “Macron siphoned off the votes of Pécresse”. The results of the first round show, according to Jean-Pierre Gorges, that “there is no longer a right-left divide”.
Helen Bonnet
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