The Antilles have plebiscite Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the communities of the Pacific voted Emmanuel Macron and Mayotte Marine Le Pen.
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The Battle of Overseas and their 2 million voters shot, Sunday, April 10, at the net advantage of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Arrived in the lead in six of the ten overseas departments or communities, including Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) combulates nearly 330 000 votes, abstention brings 56%. With 39.96% of the votes cast, it marine the pen (21.29%) and Emmanuel Macron (20.58%).
It is in the West Indies that he gets the most spectacular results. First at Guadeloupe, where Mr. Mélenchon’s score jumps 32 points, reaching 56.16%. He arrives in the lead in the thirty-two municipalities of the archipelago. The “insou” candidate harvests the fruits of his long-term investment on ultramarine specificities. Thus the LFI Group of the National Assembly has obtained the creation of a commission of inquiry into the management of water resources, major record for the Guadeloupe population. During his recent displacement in the West Indies, in December 2021, he had skillfully surfed the mistrust vis-à-vis the state in the chlorcohist scandal, to provide equivocal support for “antivax” mobilizations and against the obligation Vaccine.
Marine Le Pen, whose reception was more chahuté when she went to Guadeloupe at the end of March, nevertheless improves his score of 4.5 points and is second in second place with 17.92%. The national gathering candidate (RN) continues its rooting in this territory where the far right has long been personated non grata. The reverse is severe, on the other hand, for Mr. Macron who, despite the support he had received elected officials of Guadeloupe, solidarity and responsible, including the President of the Regional Council, Ary Chalus, and that of the County Council, Guy Losbar. , fall from 30.22% to 13.43%. A result that testifies to the gap between local political representation and the population, which has massively expressed a protest vote.
The surprise comes from Guyana
The same causes producing the same effects, the surfing “unsuitable” has also swept the Martinique, where Mr. Mélenchon, with 53.10%, doubles his 2017 score and performs the performance to come in the lead in the thirty -What common to the island. The outgoing president recorded a drop of 9 points and declined at 16.30%. While the far-right candidate confirms his breakthrough by collecting 13.42% of the vote.
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