Boris Vallaud was easily re-elected as MP for Landes, in a duel against the RN.
Boris Vallaud is back. The candidate of the New Popular Front won against the candidate of the National Rally Sylvie Franceschini with a lead of nearly 15 points. Having come out on top last Sunday, the outgoing MP managed to keep his seat as MP. In the 3e In the Landes constituency, the man who was previously president of the Socialist group in the National Assembly won 56.65% of the vote. Boris Vallaud clearly benefited from the transfer of votes from Macronist voters, as he obtained 12,000 more votes than on the 1er round, the number of votes won by the Ensemble candidate last week.
Sitting in Paris without breaking with rurality
HAS South WestBoris Vallaud confided that he did not see his constituency slipping away from him. On the evening of the first round, when he called for “a republican front to be formed” in the Landes throughout France, the outgoing MP claimed to be “the candidate of the Landes men and women above all else”. Boris Vallaud did not want to break with the rural identity of his voters, which was sometimes criticized by the other parties of the left-wing union. “When we brutalize identities too much, we can end up with identitarians” he declared last year regarding the difficulties of the left in the countryside.
Strong support from his wife
In this campaign, the Landes elected official was able to count on the support of his wife, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, who launched an appeal to vote on Tuesday, June 25 in a letter posted on the website of the daily newspaper Le Monde. “I am writing to you today because, like many of you, I am experiencing with pain and anguish the serious and uncertain electoral period that we are going through”, indicating that she was addressing the French “who will never be French enough for the National Rally”. “Let us no longer remain silent. Let us go and defeat at the ballot box those who are today putting a target on our backs” for “the Republic, its conception of citizenship and its values, of equality and fraternity”, she had declared.
The candidate was also supported by the son of his predecessor Antoine Emmanuelli, son of Henri Emmanuelli, MP for the third constituency of Landes for almost 40 years. On X, Antoine Emmanuelli had denounced the use of his father’s name by the RN candidate. “Shame on you, madam. It’s worse than an insult, it’s a desecration” he had declared before inviting the people of Landes to “choose hope” and to unite behind Boris Vallaud for the second round. With success, therefore.