The Republicans (LR) lost, on Sunday March 27, the last overseas communities they led after the defeat in Saint-Martin, in the second round of the territorial elections, of the list led by the outgoing president, Daniel Gibbs . The Caribbean island, devastated in September 2017 by hurricane Irma, is shared between the northern part, French, and the southern part, Dutch. Some 19,000 voters from the French part, which became an overseas collectivity in 2007 – previously, it was attached to Guadeloupe -, were called upon to renew the territorial council, which includes 23 members and which elects its president as well as its council. executive.
With an abstention of 47.7%, the list of the Rassemblement Saint-Martinois led by Louis Mussington, which enjoyed the support of the socialist federation of Guadeloupe, clearly won with 49.1% of the votes cast. It is ahead of the outgoing President’s Team Gibbs 2022, which won 33.3% of the vote, and the list of the Generation Hope coalition led by Jules Charville, which obtained 17.6%. Although he was acquitted by the Saint-Martin criminal court in February, Mr. Gibbs probably pays his charges in several legal cases in which he was prosecuted for favoritism and breach of public procurement rules. At the end of 2019, he also had to face strong protest against the natural risk prevention plan put in place following hurricane Irma.
Another failure of Annick Girardin
The defeat of the right during these territorial elections in the West Indian communities is completed by that of Romaric Magras in Saint-Barthélemy. The list led by the cousin of the outgoing president, Bruno Magras, in office since the creation of the community in 2007, lost a short head (1,905 votes, 49.2% of the votes cast) before that, resulting from a merger after the first round, led by Xavier Lédée (1,970 votes, 50.8%). In this island of just over 10,000 inhabitants, frequented by the big fortunes and the international jet-set, the fall of the Magras house constitutes a major surprise. In February, Bruno Magras had brought his sponsorship to Eric Zemmour.
In Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, on the other hand, the Archipel tomorrow list led by the outgoing president, Bernard Briand, classified on the right but without belonging to a national political party, retains the territorial majority with 51.8% of the vote. The Minister of the Sea, Annick Girardin, who led the Cap sur l’avenir list, suffered yet another failure. A member of the governments of François Hollande then Emmanuel Macron almost continuously since April 2014, she came in second place with 38.1% of the vote.
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