2023-08-15 07:00:00
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MY WORST HANGOVER (ELECTORAL). In the legislative elections of 2022, Richard Ferrand, loyal to Emmanuel Macron, is beaten in his stronghold of Finistère. He tells.
By Sébastien Schneegans Richard Ferrand missed out on 804 votes to win the second round of legislative elections in the 6th constituency of Finistère. © ALAIN JOCARD / AFP Published on 08/15/2023 at 07:00
Élysée, June 19, 2022. At 8 p.m., a telephone rang in the vast hall of the Palace. The serious mine, the lost look, Emmanuel Macron slips away in the garden. Joining his guests, after a long exchange, the President of the Republic does not say a word. “Poor Richard…”, he slips soberly to one of his advisers, who immediately understands that the President of the National Assembly has just been beaten in his stronghold of Finistère – the 6th constituency – by a novice from the PS, Melanie Thomin.
Macron has just lost his first faithful. The first who believed in him when no one, or almost, knew him. The dedicated apostle of macronism, the one that another historic walker, François Patriat, compares to Peter, the companion of Jesus, “the one on whom he built his…
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