” What ! Goasguen didn’t come? Morgana can’t believe it. Mom for two months, this pretty 39-year-old legal executive, met rue de Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, did not vote on Sunday: “I thought it was over, I went to the countryside to get some air she says, gazing tenderly at her offspring in the stroller. She never would have imagined that the LR mayor of her district would not come out on top in the legislative elections.
And yet! Here is this renowned politician, twice deputy, ex-minister of Jacques Chirac, mayor for almost ten years of this upscale district, sentenced to ballot. Given the winner by the party, he was capped at the post by Valérie Bougault-Delage, an illustrious stranger to whom the label En Marche! — and a very active campaign — made it possible to come out on top. This is thanks in particular to people like Samuel, 18, who is revising his baccalaureate. Sunday, he voted for the first time in his life: “For the presidential election, I was not old enough,” he says. He hesitated a lot because he is “marked on the right, it’s cultural”. But this President Macron, who advocates renewal in politics, gave him ideas: “Goasguen, he has been in politics for thirty years. If he had only been there five years, it would have been different. So, I voted for Valérie I don’t know what, the En Marche candidate! he says. But next Sunday, not sure he confirms: “I hesitate,” he admits, heading to school.
tight part
Sylvie Brun, BCBG look, 56, is really on the right, too. She wanted to “not put all the eggs in one basket” and that there be a real opposition to the Assembly. She therefore voted for her mayor. But not her gym buddies. Sylvie failed to prevent them from turning towards Macron. “We discussed it a lot. Goasguen even came to the inauguration of our gym, but that did not convince them”, confides this ex-Lyonnaise, who has lived in Passy for two years.
For Alain, 70, a convinced LR voter, the relative failure of Goasguen, for whom he voted “without enthusiasm”, has a very clear explanation: “It’s a casting error. It was necessary to put a young person. That was clever of En Marche! to face a woman from civil society. There are a lot of executives around here, it was much more suitable. Now retired, Alain was president of a large company. “Me, I was kicked out of my box, I should have done the same with Goasguen. “By Sunday, the two camps will try to mobilize, in particular the 44% of abstainers. The game looks tight. “I absolutely have to go and vote, promises Morgane. I don’t want to leave all the powers to En Marche! and then, Goasguen, he does things well. He found me a place in a nursery. »