The plans for the suburban district of Saint-Marc in Brest (Finistère) circulate from hand to hand. This Tuesday, May 17, a dozen supporters of La République en Marche (LRM) are taking to the streets for a new door-to-door operation. These retirees from defense or education accompanied by forty-year-olds engaged in the MoDem or “disappointed” of the Socialist Party (PS) distribute the propaganda of Jean-Charles Larsonneur. Deputy (Act) of the 2e constituency of Finistère, he is a candidate for re-election on June 12 and 19. Blue suit, brown shoes, the 38-year-old parliamentarian insists: “We must defend the balance sheet of the presidential majority but also explain the necessary change of method. At 7:30 p.m., we stop bothering people. » The pairs disperse to go ” to tear out “ voices.
This campaign does not resemble that of 2017, where the novice Larsonneur had marched on the election with almost 40% of the votes won in the first round. The deputy is no longer a favourite. Even if Emmanuel Macron came first (28.76%) in the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, in Brest, he was followed by a handful of votes by the candidate of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean- Luc Melenchon. Above all, the dissidence observed in all camps falsifies the forecasts. Among the dozen candidates approached, three claim their closeness to the head of state. Only one, however, has been invested by Emmanuel Macron and La République en Marche, and it is not Mr. Larsonneur but the former socialist Marc Coatanéa.
On the threshold of the houses visited, the parliamentarian is careful not to explain the absence of the face of the President of the Republic on his leaflet. Few care and prefer to talk about disability, army, Linky meter, employment… A forty-year-old denounces “lack of environmental will” of the government. “In Brest, you will not have an environmental candidate in this election since he is allied with that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the results of the presidential majority, I stand out as one of the deputies most concerned by these issues.argues Jean-Charles Larsonneur.
“Unfortunate Divisions”
The member of Parliament has indeed stood out by taking clear-cut positions such as the one comparing intensive farming, partly responsible for the phenomenon of green algae widespread in Brittany, to a “everyday holocaust”. These remarks had triggered the ire of the neighboring deputy and president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand. This is undoubtedly the genesis of the non-investiture of Jean-Charles Larsonneur to whom the party therefore preferred Marc Coatanéa. Former head of the Finistère PS, now an employee of the departmental branch of LRM, he ran for mayor of Brest, in 2020, under the Macronist banner. Without success (12.6% of the vote). “In a legislative election, the added value on his name is marginal, Judge Marc Coatanea. I am the only candidate invested by the President of the Republic and the one commissioned to bring his program to Brest. In a context of regrettable divisions, this is what voters must remember. »
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