Legislative outcomes 2024: in Var, former police officer RN Sébastien Soulé takes step one

The previous BAC agent from the northern areas of Marseille, invested by the far-right occasion in Toulon, certified for the second spherical with 42.28% of the votes. He’ll cross swords with the MP for the Renaissance Yannick Chenevard, who got here out in second place.

A good state of affairs for Sébastien Soulé: the candidate of the Nationwide Rally, who was a clicker for a time related to Bac Nord relationship in 2012, certified for the second spherical in Toulon, within the first constituency of Var. Receiving 42.28% of the votes, he’s forward of his opponent, the previous chief of the Renaissance Yannick Chenevard (31.37%), and the candidate of the New In style Entrance, Eric Habouzit, receives 22.38% of the votes. Sunday July 7, the far-right candidate may provide Marine Le Pen’s occasion the one constituency within the area that also eludes it.

An unimaginable journey greater than ten years in the past for a former police officer of the BAC gangs within the northern areas of Marseille: concerned in a case of corruption and drug trafficking with a number of of his discipline colleagues, Sébastien Soulé was arrested pre-trial for a number of months. He was launched on the finish of the applying check, 9 years after the occasions. He later joined the Federation Police union, the place he grew to become the “South Zone” union consultant in Marseille.

Extensively printed, his story impressed the writing movie you Northern Barrier by Cédric Jimenez, offered at Cannes in 2021. At a press convention, an Irish journalist joked by congratulating the director for making a movie that will favor the Le Pen vote in future time. Henceforth, one among his inspirations may very well be on the RN benches within the Nationwide Meeting. To do that, Sébastien Soulé should ship Yannick Chenevard, who was elected in 2022, away with 53.5% of the votes forward of the RN candidate Amaury Navarranne.

As quickly as they’re printed by the Ministry of the Inside, search all the outcomes by constituencies of the primary spherical of the 2024 legislative elections on the Libération web site.