La France insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Europe Ecologie Yannick Jadot’s Greens concluded on the night of Sunday to Monday May 2 an agreement for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19, 2022. A hundred constituencies will be reserved for ecologists, including five in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.
Here are the constituencies where the LFI-EELV agreement provides for the presentation of an environmentalist candidate:
- the 2nd of Côte d’Or (Dijon – Auxonne)
- the 2nd of the Doubs (Besançon – Ornans)
- the 3rd of the Jura (Dole – Arbois)
- the 1st of Saône-et-Loire (Mâcon-Cluny)
- the 1st of Yonne (Auxerre)
- For the 2nd constituency of Côte d’Or (Dijon-Auxonne)environmentalists will bet on a historical figure of the movement in Burgundy, Catherine Hervieuopposition municipal councilor in Dijon and departmental councilor of Côte d’Or, also in opposition.
- In the 2nd district of Doubs (Besançon – Ornans), EELV has not nominated a candidate and wishes to support an opening candidate, the baker Stephane Ravacley. The latter, close to the PS, does not close the door and recalls that he “has been calling for the addition of the lefts for months”.
- For the 3rd district of the Jura (Dole – Arbois), the opposition municipal councilor Herve Prat will be a candidate. He is also the former mayor of the small town of Eclans-Nenon.
- As in Besançon, there is no nominated candidate in the 1st constituency of Saône-et-Loire (Mâcon-Cluny). “It will be decided quickly”, assures regional co-secretary Claire Mallard.
- Finally, in the 1st district of Yonne, the opposition municipal councilor in Auxerre Florence Loury will represent this union of the left in the legislative elections.
With the exception of the outgoing socialist deputy Cécile Untermaierelected from the 4th constituency of Saône-et-Loire (Bresse-Tournus), the left has no deputy in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
In the light of the results of the first round of the presidential election and the method of voting in the legislative elections, it can hope to qualify a significant number of candidates for the second round.
The cumulative score of the four left-wing candidates in the first round of the 2022 presidential election (Melenchon, Jadot, Roussel and Hidalgo) exceeds 30% in 6 of the 27 constituencies in the region. In 10 additional constituencies, the left total exceeds 25% (see infographic below).
As part of the LFI-EELV agreement, environmentalists will present candidates in the constituencies ranked 2nd, 6th, 11th, 13th and 15th on the left’s score in the first round of the presidential election.
In the 2nd Doubs, the four left-wing candidates obtained a cumulative score of 33.7% in the first round of the presidential election, 30.3% in the 2nd Côte d’Or. Stéphane Ravacley like Catherine Hervieu can therefore have legitimate ambitions, especially since in Dijon, the outgoing LR Rémi Delatte will not be a candidate for his succession (unlike walker Eric Alauzet in Besancon).
It should be noted that the constituency most favorable to the left, the first of Doubs (Besançon – Saint-Vit), remains reserved for La France insoumise. Figure of the Melenchonist movement in Besançon, Séverine Véziès will be a candidate. With 34% for the left in the first round of the presidential election, she is the best placed on the left to join the Palais Bourbonin a constituency where the outgoing LREM MP, Fannette Charvier, is not a candidate.
La France insoumise continues this Monday, May 2, discussions with the Socialist Party and the Communist Party. The two historical parties of the left claim in priority the constituencies where they have outgoing, therefore the 4th of Saône-et-Loire for the PS, which according to our information is also eyeing the 4th of Doubs, with Damien Charlet.
The legislative elections will be held on June 12 and 19, 2022. Candidatures must be submitted to the prefecture between May 16 and 20.
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