Released in the first round in the first round of the legislative election, the president of the National Assembly is closely followed by the socialist Mélanie Thomin, who dreams of bringing him down.
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It rains Dru this Sunday on Finistère. Under the courtyard of the Carhaix municipal hall, the voters linger after voting. They debate the uncertain outcome of the second round of the legislative election. The result of the ballot in this 6 e district interests particularly. Here, the outgoing deputy is called Richard Ferrand, president of the National Assembly. This faithful lieutenant of Emmanuel Macron is in a ballot. Sunday, June 12, he turned to the top of the first round, with 33.56 % of the votes, but was however surprised by the good score (31.16 %) of the novice and socialist Mélanie Thomin invested by the new ecological popular union and social (clutches). A thousand votes separated the two candidates in a lower abstention context than elsewhere in France (44.93 %).
“You have to take advantage of this election to vote against Emmanuel Macron and his social breakage! Let us drop a symbol of macronism like Richard Ferrand”, encourages Michel Madec by pulling on his cigarette. Caroline and Jean -Luc – who did not wish to give their name – are doubtful: “You have to be consistent with the presidential election. Better to have a deputy who has the influence to defend our territory. Richard Ferrand has a long arm. “
Everyone then escapes on the activity of the deputy in the hot and recurring file of the maintenance of the activity of the local public hospital. In 2008, maternity was threatened with closure. A popular challenge had managed to prevent the service from stopping. Recently, Richard Ferrand went to plead the cause of the establishment in the office of the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon. Some appreciate its action. Others blame him for “opportunism dictated by the need to be re -elected”. The subjects that punctuate the life of the constituency are numerous as the territory is vast. The 6 e district of Finistère has the reputation of being the most extensive in metropolitan France and runs from the island of Ouessant, to the west, to the mountains of the Monts d’Arrée, to the East. Only a handful of the seventy communes in the constituency have more than 5,000 inhabitants.
“it can be a credible deputy”
In this very rural territory where the maintenance of public services occupies the daily life of local elected officials, the stature of Richard Ferrand reassures. The character is well established on these lands which he has been plowing for decades. Aveyronnais settled in Finistère in the 1990s. At the time, he was communications advisor to the Breton socialist Kofi Yamgna, Secretary of State for the integration of François Mitterrand from 1991 to 1993 and mayor of the village Finistère de Saint-Coulitz from 1989 to 2001. Richard Ferrand then had his mentor career by joining him as elected to the departmental council in 1998 then by succeeding him as a deputy in 2012. In the last days of the campaign, Kofi Yamgnane is However, went to Tract for Mélanie Thomin on the Plougastel-Daoulas market. The former minister still does not digest the “betrayal” of Richard Ferrand.
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