Disappointment for the RN in the overseas departments and territories during this second round of the legislative elections. While the mainland votes until 6 p.m. (8 p.m. in the big cities), the count has already been carried out in many overseas localities, where voting took place yesterday. As in the first round, the left comes in first place almost everywhere. The Express make the point.
RN defeat in Guadeloupe
The outgoing deputies were re-elected in the four Guadeloupean constituencies, notably against the two candidates of the National Rally, who had made a breakthrough by qualifying for the second round.
Respectively beaten by the two incumbents DVG Christian Baptiste (72.38%) and Max Mathiasin (69.15%), Laurent Petit (RN) recorded 27.62% of the votes and Rody Tolassy, local headliner of the RN, 30.85%. This is a setback for the latter, elected to the European Parliament on June 9 and who, in the 2022 legislative elections, had narrowly avoided election by gathering nearly 48% of the votes in the second round.
Nearly 76% for the left-wing candidate in Guyana
The two outgoing deputies of Guyana, supported by the New Popular Front, were re-elected. The regionalist Jean-Victor Castor won in the 1st constituency with a comfortable score of 76.11% of the votes cast against an independent candidate, Boris Chong-Sit.
In the second constituency, the outgoing president of the Overseas delegation in the National Assembly, Davy Rimane, was re-elected, although he was the only candidate in the running after the withdrawal of the independent candidate who came in second, Sophie Charles. In Guyana, the final turnout reached 24.98%.
Breakthrough of the New Popular Front in Martinique
Socialist candidate Béatrice Bellay created a surprise in the 3rd constituency by winning (54.53%) against the incumbent Johnny Hajjar, who came out on top in the first round for the NFP, which the first secretary of the PS of Martinique also claims. This is only the second time since 1988 and the election of Aimé Césaire that this constituency has escaped the Martinique Progressive Party (PPM). The incumbent deputy Jean-Philippe Nilor (New Popular Front) crushed (86.58%) the duel that pitted him against an RN opponent. Already well ahead in the first round, he nevertheless lacked having crossed the 25% mark of registered voters to qualify straight away.
In the first and second constituencies, the incumbents Jiovanny William (81.97%) and Marcellin Nadeau (65.68%), came in comfortably ahead under the NFP banner.
A victorious independence supporter in New Caledonia
Emmanuel Tjibaou became the first pro-independence MP since 1986 on Sunday. A political novice, the 48-year-old consolidated his lead from the first round in the second constituency and ultimately won with 57.44% of the vote and 13,404 votes ahead of Alcide Ponga, a non-pro-independence member of the Les Républicains group. The new MP is also expected to sit among the MPs supported by the New Popular Front.
In the 1st constituency, which includes Noumea, loyalist MP Nicolas Metzdorf (DVD), rapporteur of the constitutional bill on the thawing of the electoral body, the examination of which in the Assembly triggered the violence, won (52.41%) against pro-independence Omayra Naisseline, a closer score than expected.
Polynesia: Autonomists gain ground
In the vast Pacific territory, the legislative elections pitted the autonomists against the independentists, incumbent candidates in the three constituencies. In the 3rd, the independentist Merena Reid Arbelot saved her seat by a narrow margin (50.87%) against the wife of former President Gaston Flosse, Pascale Haiti-Flosse. The autonomist candidate Nicole Sanquer won the 2nd constituency (55.88%) to the detriment of the incumbent Steve Chailloux. In the 1st, the center-right autonomist Moerani Frébault was elected in the first round with 54% of the vote, ahead of the incumbent pro-independence MP Tematai Le Gayic (35%).
In metropolitan France, the first results are expected as early as 8 p.m. On Sunday at noon, the turnout for the second round of the legislative elections reached 26.63%. Unprecedented since 1981, proof of the mobilization of the French for this historic election in which the National Rally could emerge victorious, with great uncertainty over its ability to obtain an absolute majority in the Assembly.