in Pas-de-Calais, Brigitte Bourguignon plays her re-election and her place as minister
6:26 p.m., May 31, 2022
The candidates
- Terry Loire-Rénier (Let’s go children)
- Christine Engrand (National Rally)
- Brigitte Bourguignon (Ensemble, Territories of Progress)
- Simon Erckelboudt (Various right)
- Pascal Lebecq (Nupes, La France insoumise)
- Faustine Maliar (The Republicans)
- Patricia Duvieubourg (Various left)
- Jérôme Judek (Reconquest!)
- Vanessa Bourel (Animal Party)
- Laure Bourel (Labour struggle)
- Claudine Blauwart (sovereign right)
Numbers
The result of 2017. At the time, Brigitte Bourguignon was the outgoing MP for the constituency, where she was elected in 2012, succeeding Jack Lang. The only difference: her political label, since the elected socialist has meanwhile joined La République en Marche. Despite this, she is ahead (27.66%) of the UMP candidate Frédéric Wacheux (24.55%), the diverse-left Hervé Poher (20.79%) and the representative of the National Front Olivier Delbé (18.63 %) in the first ballot. In the second, Brigitte Bourguignon won with 54.31% of the vote. Since then, the one who was Minister Delegate in charge of Autonomy at the end of Emmanuel Macron’s first five-year term has again had to submit to the vote of the voters of her constituency. When Brigitte Bourguignon entered the government in 2020, her deputy Ludovic Loquet, who was then in a cumulative situation, decided to favor his mandate as mayor and issued, causing a partial legislative election. As a new candidate, the minister won back the constituency in June 2021 with 62.05% of the vote, ahead of the National Rally (37.95%). It was then his new deputy, Christophe Leclercq, who sat in the National Assembly.
The presidential score. In the first round, the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, won 38% of the vote in this constituency, or 14 points more than her national score. Against 26% of the votes for Emmanuel Macron. In the second round, the far right was also in the lead: 58% for Marine Le Pen against 42% for Emmanuel Macron.
The challenge
In the new government, Brigitte Bourguignon won the very exposed portfolio of the Minister of Health at the age of 63, thus succeeding Olivier Véran. A promotion for this former social worker who notably distinguished herself at the head of the commission of inquiry into the Covid-19 – a management triggered even by the opposition. Brigitte Bourguignon also had to manage the repercussions caused in January by the revelations of the book The Gravediggers on the excesses of the giant Ehpad Orpea. Well deployed in her constituency, Brigitte Bourguignon, who is presented as one of the figures of “left wing” of Macronie, it is a member of Territories of Progress, however, will have to face the National Rally, which prints high scores there and has erased more than four points in five years. “I very much regret that we don’t sell our actions and their effects better. It’s up to us to make an effort, to report to people, to explain to them how it improves their daily lives.”explained the Minister at the beginning of May in The voice of the North. Opposite, and despite the national agreement, the left competes divided: invested by the New Popular Ecological and Social Union, Pascal Lebecq (La France insoumise) finds on his way the communist dissident Patricia Duvieubourg. A former member of the Socialist Party, Pascal Lebecq knows Brigitte Bourguignon well since he campaigned in 2012… If the minister wins on June 19, it will be her deputy who will sit at the Bourbon Palace. This time it is Christian Leroy, mayor of Escoeuilles and president of the community of communes of the Pays de Lumbres, who is preparing for it. “It was a hypothesis that I had in mind when I agreed to be a substitute and therefore a reflection that I matured”ensures the person concerned in the regional daily.
If she loses, she will have to leave the government.
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The geographic location
The 6th constituency of Pas-de-Calais covers an area located between Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Saint-Omer and Béthune. It has just over 120,000 inhabitants.