After his departure from LR, Aurélien Pradié was placed in the lead in the 1st round of the legislative elections in the 1st constituency of Lot. The elected official is in a good position to be re-elected.
Was this a decision that influenced the choice of voters? A few days after leaving Les Républicains, Aurélien Pradié was largely placed in the lead in the first round of the legislative elections, in the 1st constituency of Lot. The outgoing MP received 42.25% of the votes. Behind, Elsa Bougeard of the New Popular Front and Slava Mihaylova of the RN, were respectively credited with 24.33% and 23.06% of the votes, allowing them also to advance to the 2nd round (the votes obtained represented more than 12 .5% of the number of voters). It will therefore be a triangular in this territory, Sunday July 7, 2024.
A sudden and definitive departure from LR
A long-standing member of the traditional right, Aurélien Pradié has decided to break with the Les Républicains party just a few days before the first round of the legislative elections. The Lot MP, who is running for re-election, assured La Dépêche that his departure was final, because the party “is no longer capable of speaking to the French”. “LR is dead” the Lotois went so far as to say. But he has therefore not given up on a possible re-election as an MP since he is an independent candidate. The ex-LR who does not renounce his values and political ideas by leaving the party, on the contrary, according to him it is a way of remaining faithful to it.
Aurélien Pradié therefore presents himself as a right-wing Gaullist candidate independent of the LR – who in fact no longer have a candidate in the constituency – and is opposed to the National Rally as well as the New Popular Front, more particularly La France insoumise, which he describes two “extremes”: “Mélenchon and Le Pen being two sides of the same coin”.
The MP for Lot also wants to offer another voice to Emmanuel Macron’s policy. He acknowledges that the initiative is risky but believes that “the time has come for political adventurers” and that this adventure “must not worry, it must reassure and enthuse those in my political family who still want to believe in it”.