Second round of the 2022 legislative elections: difficult to find a winner in Paris
New political landscape in Paris at the end of this second round of legislative elections. Five years after the tidal wave emitted by the macronie in the 2017 elections, the capital has given a boost to the left, by electing 9 deputies from the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), i.e. 7 more for the left. The presidential majority has lost 4 constituencies compared to 2017, even if it wins the two so far held by the right.
Will these elections have an impact on local political life? The Parisian left emerged weakened after the presidential election with the sad scores achieved by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo herself (2.18% in Paris), but also by the ecologist Yannick Jadot (7.67 %) and the communist Fabien Roussel (1.64%), while Emmanuel Macron came out on top with 35.49% of the vote ahead of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his 29.93%.
So the left is picking up colors. But above all thanks to his alliance, conducted against the advice of the mayor of Paris, who did not want a union with rebellious France. Will it be brought to continue within the Parisian political spectrum? In any case, it’s a safe bet that with its many elected political figures, the environmental allies of Anne Hidalgo and the Insoumis will no doubt want to weigh more in the capital.
After the re-election of Danièle Obono and the elections of the Insoumises Sophia Chikirou and Sarah Legrain last Sunday, from the first round, Paris indeed sends three ecologists – Julien Bayou (5th district), Eva Sas (8th) and Sandrine Rousseau (9th) – , two new Insoumis – Rodrigo Arenas (10th) and Danielle Simonnet (15th) – and the defender of the animal cause, Aymeric Caron (18th), in the National Assembly.
Consult the results of the legislative elections in Paris, constituency by constituency. Follow the results in particular in the 1st district (Paris 1st, Paris II and Paris VIII), the 5th district (Paris X and Paris III), the 10th district (Paris XIII and Paris XIV), the 16th district (Paris XIX).
Especially since the three candidates supported by Anne Hidalgo – who had qualified for the second round of the legislative elections – were all beaten. In the 15th constituency, the outgoing socialist deputy, Lamia El Aaraje, arrived far behind the Insoumise Danielle Simonnet, invested by Nupes who won the election with 58.45% of the vote.
In the 2nd constituency, Marine Rosset bowed to the outgoing Macronist deputy, Gilles Le Gendre, who collected 63.39% of the vote. Finally, the assistant in charge of trade, Olivia Polski, who had come first in the 11th constituency at the end of the first round, was finally beaten by the outgoing deputy Maud Gatel, member of the majority Ensemble.
In the evening, the mayor of Paris pointed to Emmanuel Macron’s “failure” on Twitter. “A truncated presidential debate, the RN enters the National Assembly en masse, record abstention, climate inaction, increasing inequalities which are fracturing the country more than ever. It is facing a democratic crisis. Everything has to be rebuilt. »
Ministers saved from righteousness
The presidential majority can, for its part, breathe. At the end of an election evening rich in twists and turns, at 10:20 p.m., Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, was proclaimed the winner of the duel which opposed him to the ecologist Léa Balage El Mariki, invested by Nupes. The boss of the Republic on the move was elected in the 3rd constituency, with 51% of the vote and 769 votes in advance.
Same hard-fought victory for the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune, elected in the 7th district with 50.73% of the vote. Government spokesperson Olivia Grégoire won hands down the 12th constituency, of which she was the outgoing MP, with 68.51% of the vote. The challenge for the movement supporting Emmanuel Macron will be to transform the trial into more local elections, which it has never managed to do before.
Finally, it is on the right that these legislative elections could well have changed the situation in Paris. Because it is the end of the Parisian Republicans in the National Assembly. Brigitte Kuster, the outgoing MP for the 4th constituency, straddling the 16th and 17th arrondissements, lost her seat as MP to Macronist Astrid Panosyan Bouvet. This came first in the second round with 55.45% of the vote.
And the LR mayor of the 16th century, Francis Szpiner, who hoped to enter the National Assembly on the occasion of these legislative elections, ultimately remains at the gates of the Palais-Bourbon, since it is the macronist Benjamin Hadad who won the election with 53.23% of the vote. What to impose a questioning before the municipal elections of 2026?