Gérald Darmanin won the seat of deputy for the 10th constituency of the North during this second round of legislative elections, this Sunday, July 7.
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21:18 – The final results for Gérald Darmanin
The counting is finished in the 10th constituency of Tourcoing, and the Ministry of the Interior is now able to communicate the complete results. It announces that Gérald Darmanin was re-elected deputy with 61.37% of the votes in his stronghold. He won by a wide margin ahead of his opponent in The National Rally obtained 38.63% of the votes.
20:39 – “A deputy who represents all the citizens of his constituency”
Re-elected as a member of parliament, Gérald Darmanin declared on the TF1 set that he “would be[a] in the National Assembly a deputy who represents all the citizens of his constituency”. The current Minister of the Interior had indicated that he did not wish to remain in government. In his eyes, “no one can say that he won these elections, especially not Mr. Mélenchon.”
20:16 – Gérald Darmanin re-elected in the 10th constituency of the North
On the social network X, Gérald Darmanin announced his re-election in the 10th constituency of the North, where the Minister of the Interior was in a duel with the National Rally: “Thank you to all the voters who, after putting me in the lead in the first round, massively re-elected me to represent them in the National Assembly. I will be the deputy of all the inhabitants of this popular and hard-working constituency”. According to figures from TF1, he was re-elected with 58.9% of the vote.
20:00 – 150 to 180 seats for Ensemble
Together, the coalition which brings together Renaissance (LREM), MoDem, Horizons and other allies of Macronie, is given 150 to 180 seats according to the first projections of results given by the Ifop institute.
19:42 – Darmanin denies having made comments deemed racist
In an article published on July 5, the newspaper Le Monde states that on the evening of the announcement of the dissolution by Emmanuel MacronInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly said: “On July 7, the blédards will have left and will not vote LFI.” The latter completely denied having made such comments: “These comments are purely false and defamatory. 24 hours before the vote, this is gross fake news. I am filing a defamation complaint against anyone who relays it. Democracy is better than lies,” he said.
18:59 – The PS called for a vote for Gérald Darmanin
Before the second round of the legislative elections, local left-wing parties called on their voters to cast their votes for Gérald Darmanin. This is the case of Ali Laazaoui, secretary of the PS section of Tourcoing, who told BFM TV that “even if we are determined to fight the policy led by Gérald Darmanin, the Socialist Party has always known how to take its responsibilities when the Republic, democracy, are in danger. Consequently, we call for a vote for the candidate of the presidential majority.”
18:02 – The question of the transfer of NFP votes is crucial
The 10th constituency of the North, in which Gérald Darmanin is a candidate for re-election, is one of the territories which saw a triangular turn into a duel after the withdrawal of the third NFP candidate. Leslie Mortreux, who had won 24.82% of the vote, had finally withdrawn. Although she did not explicitly call for a vote for Gérald Darmanin, she made it known in a press release shared on social networks that “no vote should go to the National Rally”. She also made it known that “we cannot afford to let the RN pass”, without specifically calling on her voters to vote for Gérald Darmanin. The choice of left-wing voters will be particularly scrutinized in this 10th constituency of the North.
17:10 – “Rolling back” the National Rally
When his candidacy for the legislative elections was made official on June 11, Gérald Darmanin clearly identified his main opponent: the National Rally. “Worried” about the political context in which France has been plunged since the European elections, the Minister of the Interior intends to “push back” the party in his constituency “without insulting the voters” of the far-right party. “That’s why I’m fighting, in my constituency, surrounded by my friends. But also nationally, modestly as I can do elsewhere, so that the French can wake up.”
16:20 – What future for Darmanin after these legislative elections?
In the event of a defeat of the presidential camp, he wants to focus on his mandate as a deputy (in the event of an election), to “lead the opposition”. A few days earlier, Gérald Darmanin had also announced his desire to no longer sit in the government in the event of defeat in the legislative elections. “If I am defeated, I will obviously resign that same evening”, he declared on June 21 on France Inter. “If there is a majority, the President of the Republic will choose his government, and if the far-left or the far-right wins, it is obvious that from Monday morning I will no longer be a minister. The President will decide what he will do, but I will not be a minister for one more day”.
15:31 – Will Gérald Darmanin remain in government if he is elected?
In the event of victory in the 2024 legislative elections, Gérald Darmanin can choose to remain in the government or leave it to sit in the Palais Bourbon. And the Minister of the Interior is maintaining the vagueness, since after announcing that he wanted to leave the government at the end of the legislative elections, he declared on June 28 on Franceinfo that he intended to stay in office: “if the majority is reappointed, I hope to be part of this government to preside over the Olympic Games that we have been preparing for 4 years.”
Gérald Darmanin has indeed managed to resist the RN wave. The Minister of the Interior announced his victory in the 10th constituency of the North on social networks: “I will be the deputy of all the inhabitants of this popular and hard-working constituency”, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter, while the results communicated by the Ministry of the Interior give him 61.37% of the vote. He was facing the RN candidate, Bastien Verbrugghe.
However, the task was announced as tough, as Gérald Darmanin himself said before the first round, since his opponent from the National Rally himself qualified with 34.31% of the votes in his favor. For the second round this Sunday, July 7, the question of the transfer of votes was obviously crucial: the candidate from the The New Popular Front, which also qualified for the second round, had chosen to withdraw in order to block the National Rally.
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Gérald Darmanin announced his re-election on the social network X, formerly Twitter, in the 10th constituency of the North. “Thank you to all the voters who, after putting me in the lead in the first round, massively re-elected me to represent them in the National Assembly,” he wrote. “I will be the deputy of all the inhabitants of this popular and hard-working constituency.” He was elected with 61.37% of the vote, according to figures released by the Ministry of the Interior.
Elected as a member of parliament in 2012 and 2022, Gérald Darmanin was on familiar ground by running in the 10th constituency of the North. The mayor of Tourcoing had already been elected there with 57.5% of the vote two years ago, and had left his deputy, Vincent Ledoux, to sit in the Palais Bourbon while he served as Minister of the Interior in the Borne and Attal governments.
But the results were much closer than expected for the first round of the legislative elections. While Gérald Darmanin once again came out on top in the first round, with 36.03% of the vote, he was just ahead of RN candidate Bastien Verbrugghe (34.31%) and Leslie Mortreux of the New Popular Front (24.82%). The latter withdrew, calling for no votes to be given to the RN but without specifically calling for votes to be transferred to the Minister of the Interior.