Heavy defeat for LR in Haute-Savoie, crushed in a partial legislative election by Eric Ciotti’s candidate | EUROtoday

He didn’t swing the previous Gaullist celebration to the far proper, however Eric Ciotti gained, Sunday 1^er February, a victory over his former political household, humiliated in a stronghold of Haute-Savoie regardless of the intervention of all its leaders.

One of the younger executives of his celebration, the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), Antoine Valentin, gained the by-election within the 3^e constituency of this border division, clearly beating the Les Républicains (LR) candidate Christophe Fournier. His victory was hardly doubtful for the reason that first spherical, gained with a 30-point lead. In the second spherical, regardless of a slight enhance in participation and the help of many of the votes of left-wing voters, Christophe Fournier obtained solely 40.9% of the votes, in comparison with 59.1% for Antoine Valentin, with a participation of 34.1%.

Mayor of Saint-Jeoire, a small city within the constituency, Antoine Valentin was a sufferer of the Republican entrance raised in opposition to him in 2024, and which allowed the re-election of LR deputy Christelle Petex. It was the resignation of the latter, in November 2025, out of weariness of political life, which brought about this by-election.

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