Of 29 polling stations, Emmanuel Macron concedes only one to Marine Le Pen, that of Oeutrange. But the score of the latter (34%) in the city has never been so high. Even if Isabelle Rauch, the LREM deputy for the 9th constituency, had insisted during the interval between the two rounds on the fact that the re-election of the candidate president was not “acquired”, the probability rate that Marine Le Pen wins in Thionville was about as high as FC Metz’s chances of staying in Ligue 1 this season. Several reasons for this. First, Thionville is full of cross-border workers. And even if her speech on closing the borders and leaving the European Union has since been somewhat rewritten, the variable geometry position of the president of the National Rally on this subject did not encourage them to slip a ballot in her name at the ballot box. Then historically, Thionville has almost always voted mostly on the right. As proof, the 53% of the votes collected by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 in the second round or the 18% achieved by François Fillon in the first round in 2017, in the midst of the “Pénélope” affair. In the absence of a sufficiently charismatic and unifying candidate this year in this political family, the voters therefore naturally turned to Emmanuel Macron, to whom Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s vote transfers also benefited.
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Gathering on the left?
Support for Emmanuel Macron assumed, Pierre Cuny, the center-right mayor of Thionville, member of the Horizons party of Édouard Philippe, if he is delighted with the victory of the president, tempers. “Be careful, the National Rally is becoming respectable and all the danger is there. Clearly, today we have three blocs in France: the extreme right, la France insoumise and the left, and the center right. Emmanuel Macron will have to build a large party that is as open as possible. Because the time has already come for the preparation of the legislative elections. “I clearly imagine positioning Horizons candidates in two constituencies of Moselle”, he aims. Isabelle Rauch will “naturally” be a candidate for her succession. For the socialist Brigitte Vaïsse, the time is in priority to the rally of the left. “Personally, even if I remain attached to the values of socialism, I consider that the Socialist Party no longer represents anything. At some point, you have to claim an alternative on the left. According to the regional councillor, discussions are already underway with the various left-wing parties in the constituency with a view to the strategy to be adopted for the legislative elections. “There are more things that bring us together than divide us. »
