Stéphane Ravacley did not succeed in his bet. There will be no “baker in the assembly”, as his campaign slogan proclaimed. With 47.74% of the vote, he lost to his opponent LREM Éric Alauzet, who obtained 52.26% of the vote in the second round of the legislative elections this Sunday. The big-hearted baker had received unexpected support from all over France. Saturday Benoît Hamon, yet withdrawn from political life, came out of his silence to praise the qualities of an “exceptional man” who, according to him, would also make an “exceptional deputy”. Missed. Former environmentalist, Éric Alauzet’s “Presidential Majority” label may have enabled him to capture a good part of the 10.8% of the Republican candidate, Chafia Kaoulal, in the first round.
In the 2nd constituency of Doubs, Stéphane Ravacley and Éric Alauzet had qualified for the second round of the legislative elections, with respectively 32.51% and 31.36% of the vote, a straw of 465 votes. His campaign, oriented towards the representation of “little people” in the National Assembly, was particularly followed by the national media. The environmental candidate invested by EELV is a militant figure. He had distinguished himself by leading a hunger strike for the regularization of his Guinean apprentice in January 2021. Stéphane Ravacley had finally won his case.
Few voice reserves for Stéphane Ravacley
With 13,112 votes in the first round, Stéphane Ravacley, the candidate of the left (PS / PCF / LFI / EELV / Generations) gathered within the Nupes (New Popular Ecological and Social Union) had already practically filled up the votes, which may also explain his defeat on Sunday. “I’m not far left. I am socialist-green. I am the addition of the lefts”, specified the baker, well decided with his troops “to fight like lions and lionesses by returning to the field to seek the abstainers” before this second round.
The outgoing LREM deputy, Éric Alauzet, candidate for his re-election, had been “the best elected deputy in France in 2017”, he is much less so this evening, but the essential is done. This doctor-acupuncturist, under the EELV label in 2017, wanted to “address everyone” and “since the national sport is to fall on Macron, continued the outgoing deputy, I will explain the dangers of Jean-Pierre’s program. Luc Melenchon”. He was apparently heard by his electorate.