Haute-Garonne: Macron advantage, Mélenchon triumphs in Toulouse
Emmanuel Macron leads the first round in Haute-Garonne with 27% of the vote. Jean-Luc Mélenchon comes second but remains at the zenith in Toulouse.
Neither the push of the far right in rural areas nor the triumph of the rebellious French candidate in Toulouse upset the established order: Emmanuel Macron came out on top in Haute-Garonne in the first round of the presidential election. .
The President of the Republic, with 26.90% of the vote, maintains his positions and even wins voters in a context of higher turnout than in 2017. With 18.21% of the vote, Marine Le Pen also amplifies his score of five years ago but its performance remains limited to very rural municipalities, with the notable exception of Muret, the fourth town in the department, where it won 23.88% of the vote. As five years ago, it is Jean-Luc Mélenchon who passes in front of him. (25.87%) The leader of rebellious France has captured most of the left-wing electorate, particularly in Toulouse where the tribune has nearly 37% of the vote, almost eight points more than there are. five answers.
Socialist nothingness
In hollow, it makes even more spectacular the collapse of the candidate of the Socialist Party, Anne Hidalgo, in a department which constitutes the showcase of the party with the rose. The first PS federation in France is also the department of the president of the Ocitanie regional council, Carole Delga, also national spokesperson for the campaign, and that of the president of the departmental council, Georges Méric, quietly re-elected last summer. Overall, Anne Hidalgo does not exceed 3% when ten years ago, François Hollande totaled nearly 33%, ten times more!
Georges Méric conceded that the score of the socialist candidate was “a disappointment” and he is already calling for a necessary overhaul of the left: “As a socialist, I cannot bring myself to accept the historically low score of my party Beyond the weakness of the apparatus, the ideas of equality, social justice, ecology of the left “of doing” that we defend, are more than ever essential in a world in profound upheaval. must imperatively question themselves in order to represent a plausible alternative between the far right and unbridled liberalism”.
“We cannot remain the dumbest left in the world” admitted for his part the first federal secretary of the PS of Haute-Garonne, Sébastien Vincini, also national spokesperson for the campaign of Anne Hidalgo. The Socialists must first cross swords with La France insoumise, which stands out as the first force on the left in Toulouse and in the department.
In the Pink City, where Jean-Luc Mélenchon filled the Place du Capitole on April 3, the rebellious leader crushed all his competitors with 37% of the vote. In the polling station of the Daurat school, there is even a Soviet score of 82%! Obviously, as five years ago, the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône has aggregated the useful vote and gathered behind his socialist and environmentalist banner. Will he be able to elect deputies in the legislative elections next June? This is an other story. In 2017, in similar circumstances, no rebellious candidate was elected in Haute-Garonne.