Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is a candidate for the 2024 legislative elections in the 10th constituency of the North under the barrier of the Renaissance presidential party. But what are his chances of winning?
While he already wears the hats of Minister of the Interior and Mayor of Tourcoing, Gérald Darmanin is now launching the 2024 legislative campaign, the elections of which are scheduled for June 30 and July 7. He ran as a candidate this Tuesday, June 11, 2024 in the 10th constituency of the North, which brings together the cantons of Tourcoing Nord and Tourcoing Nord-Est. If he is elected and he is asked to join the possible new government that will be formed or if there is no reshuffle following these elections, it will be his deputy, Vincent Ledoux, who will sit. in the National Assembly. This is also what happened in 2022.
The current resident of Place Beauvau did not fail, when his candidacy was made official on Tuesday June 11, to support the decision toEmmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly after the European elections on June 9. And he has clearly identified the main opponent of this express campaign, the National Rally, which he intends to “roll back” in his constituency “without insulting the voters” of the far-right party. Gérald Darmanin said he was “worried” about the political situation in the country since the 2024 European elections. “This is what I am fighting for, in my constituency, surrounded by my friends. But also nationally, modestly as I can. do elsewhere, so that the French can wake up.”
What are Gérald Darmanin’s chances of being elected in the 2024 legislative elections?
Gérald Darmanin is not in his first legislative election, far from it. The mayor of Tourcoing had already been elected twice in the 10th district of the North, in 2012 then in 2022. During the last ballot to elect the deputies sitting in the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior had indeed been elected, but it was his deputy, Vincent Ledoux, who took his place at the Palais Bourbon so that he could maintain his activity within the government.
If we rely on the result of the last legislative elections, Gérald Darmanin has his chances of being elected deputy for the 10th constituency of the North and could give up his place to his deputy if he sees himself reappointed within the government, as this was the case during the last national election. But the result of the 2024 European elections may worry the Minister of the Interior: in his stronghold, it was the National Rally which came in first with 35.49% of the votes, far ahead of the presidential Renaissance party (14.8% polls) on June 9.