Relive the election night in Lyon with activists and deputies Nupes et Ensemble!
Scenes of jubilation in two Lyon constituencies for the Nupes, half-hearted victory with the re-elected deputies of the presidential majority: discover in pictures the evening of the second round of the legislative election in Lyon
No victory hands down, but at 10 p.m., as soon as the local results were announced, the Nupes activists exploded anyway in Lyon in the 7th arrondissement where they had made an appointment.
The first words of Marie Charlotte Garin are for them: “I am very grateful to those who gave a few hours or sometimes days off. I am grateful to the collective, because a campaign is a collective affair.”
_“I had never been an activist before,” says a young man who came to support her, but her speech made me want to come with her. “A victory that nourishes broader hopes: “ I hope that we can carry this union of the left very far” ended an activist in the euphoria of the victory of the Nupes in the 2nd and 3rd constituencies of Lyon.
Relive the 2nd round of the legislative elections in Lyon with Nupes activists
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In Chasselay, the re-elected MP for the 5th constituency, Blandine Brocard, had made an appointment with her supporters in an agricultural shed. No outpouring of joy, despite their large local victory because for many, the new face of the assembly is considered “ungovernable”.
Surrounded by two children, the re-elected MP with 70.37% of votes explains the situation very simply: “that means that even if all the Macron deputies vote for a piece of legislation, others will have to help us pass it. His pursing of lips on the face betrays the apprehension of the weeks to come.
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With the Together activists in the second round of the legislative elections in Lyon
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“Abstention scares me” comment Blandine Brocard, “and we’re really going to have to take it” she says. Gathered late in the evening, on a barge on the banks of the Rhône in the center of Lyon, the candidates Together! du Rhône dare all the same, with smiles on their lips, to savor their local resistance to Nupes.
“We were told the death of Macronie in Lyon but tomorrow our goal is to bring out a new generation” says Allan Bouamrane, the youth referent with Macron du Rhône.
“We are ready to work with those who want it, but will some elected officials want to work with us? Especially the extremes? I don’t think so.“comments, more pragmatically, Anne Brugnera, re-elected MP for the 4th district of the Rhône.