Joris Hébrard, MP National Rally of Avignon, Morières and Le Pontet
In the first constituency of Vaucluse, that of Avignon-Morières – Le Pontet, Joris Hébrard was elected deputy. The mayor Rassemblement National du Pontet won 51.14% of the vote against the candidate of the New Popular Union Farid Faryssy (48.86%). It’s here first time that a Rassemblement National deputy has been elected in this constituency. He succeeds LREM MP Souad Zitouni, eliminated in the first round. Abstention in the second round yesterday was 56.57% in this constituency.
“It’s great to beat the left!” – RN voters at Pontet
On the steps of the town hall of Pontet, Huguette with a glass in hand. She voted in Morières for Joris Hébard “I’m more than satisfied: it’s great”. Stéphanie and her friend Carole also have a glass in their hands to toast the defeat of the left: “I was disappointed by the presidential election, now I’m happy of this result”. Her friend adds what is especially “super happy to have beaten the left”.
The left was in the lead in Avignon with more than 2,000 votes in advance for Farid Faryssy, the candidate of the New Popular Union. But the deputy mayor of Pontet Joris Hébrard no longer calculates the left: “It crumbles under the weight of its own contradictions. I predicted that the union of the left would be shattered. We won’t have to wait long for that to happen.”
Deputy Mayor to give another direction to the East West Link
Joris Hébrard believes that he owes his victory in part to his mandate as Rassemblement National mayor: “People judge on actions and I did some during my term as mayor. This term as deputy will be a complicated job that requires personal sacrifices. I want Holder of local files at the National Assembly, in particular that of the traffic diagram for Grand Avignon and the East-West link. We have to go back on certain points of this file”.
NUPES points out racism against Farid Faryssy
Sunday evening, militants of the NUPES calculated that the report of the votes of La République En Marche had not been done. Farid Farryssy wants to remain combative: “We lost tonight but the battle, I will lead it. We are not the far right. We defend the Republic, secularism, freedom, equality and fraternity. We deserve to fight in the street”.
Farid Faryssy announces that he intends to sue the media and those who have researched his origins: “because the candidate is called Farid and that he was born on the other side of the Mediterranean, we would have the right to crush him? I carried the word of the little ones, of normal people who want to be respected and treated with dignity. We admit to fighting because I never lower my head”.
NUPES in the lead in Avignon but RN well ahead of Pontet and Morières
On the first tour, Farid Farryssy was in the lead with 178 votes but yesterday he was beaten. Joris Hébrard, the new Rassemblement National deputy wins with 656 votes ahead. Yet Farid Farryssy had more than 2,000 votes in advance in Avignon. It is in his town of Pontet that Joris Hébrard is catching up (1631 votes in advance in Pontet), well helped by the voters of Morières Les Avignon who give him 1039 votes in advance. All evening, Farid Faryssy bitterly calculated thathe had missed the report of the votes of La République En Marche. The mayor of Avignon pointed “the abstention and especially the indecision of the Avignonnais”. At the New Popular Union, activists criticized Cécile Helle and her municipal team for not being sufficiently involved in Farid Faryssy’s campaign.