A disappointing consequence however not catastrophic. Led by the thinker François-Xavier Bellamy, the Republican checklist (LR) got here in fifth place within the European elections with 7% of the votes, in keeping with an OpinionWay estimate at 10 p.m. Her rating is decrease than that of the earlier European elections of 2019 (8.48%), however larger than that of Valérie Pécresse in 2022 (4.8%). And its checklist is forward of that of Reconquest which obtained 5.4% of votes.
It is a aid for LR who feared falling under the fateful 5% mark and never sending elected officers to the Strasbourg Parliament. The European elections are “the beginning of an extended highway to rebuilding the fitting,” responded François-Xavier Bellamy. “I do know the immensity of the work to be achieved,” he stated, particularly since “many thought that we’d not be within the European Parliament, that the fitting would disappear from French public life.” His marketing campaign was praised on X by a number of heavyweights in his social gathering. “Brave and genuine, with a dignity and honesty that do honor to our convictions”, for Laurent Wauquiez, she “met the calls for of the European problem”, in keeping with Aurélien Pradié.