Legislative 2022: The French of Monaco lean towards Manuel Valls
A week before their compatriots in mainland France, the French Abroad were called to the polls this Sunday. In particular those of Monaco, attached to the 5th district also including Andorra, Spain and Portugal.
And it is the former Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, surprise candidate for the presidential majority in this constituency who won the most votes at the exit of the polls in the Principality: 104 in total.
A score under the influence perhaps of his visit, on May 30, to Monegasque soil alongside the mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi.
The Monegasque tendency will not have been enough for him and Manuel Valls admitted this Sunday evening his defeat on the whole of the constituency where it is the candidate of the Nupes Renaud Le Berre and the outgoing deputy Stéphane Vojetta who are qualified for the second tour according to results published by the daily Le Parisien Today in France.
A participation rate of 8.4%
In Monaco, as usual, this election will not have defined the crowds. The abstention rate was 85% in 2017. It is even lower this time. Yesterday, 439 voters went to the polling station set up by the French Embassy at the Saint-Charles school out of the 5,195 registered. That is a participation rate of 8.4%.
In figures, for the twelve candidates in the running:
Claire Béhar: 5 votes; Laurent Goater (Les Républicains-UDI-Les Centristes) 44 votes; Marc Ridelle (Les Patriotes) 13 votes; Maria Isabel De Sousa Teixeira (Left Radicals) 0 votes; Robin Fontaine (Volt) 26 votes; Manuel Valls (Together!) 104 votes; Serge Bies (National Rally) 73 votes; Garbine Eraso (EHBAI-Regions and peoples in solidarity) 0 votes; Renaud Le Berre (Europe Ecology – The Greens) 32 votes; José Sanchez Pérez (The Ecologists) 9 votes; Nicolas Chamoux (Reconquest!) 73 votes; Stéphane Vojetta (outgoing MP) 55 votes.
The second tour is scheduled for June 19.