She leads two fronts regardless of herself. After greater than ten days of dealing with a strike by liberal medical doctors, the Minister of Health, Stéphanie Rist, will attempt, on Sunday January 18, to avoid wasting her seat as deputy of the 1D Loiret constituency, through the first spherical of a partial legislative election known as in baroque circumstances.
Non-cumulative mandates require, the Macronist deputy elected since 2017 was pressured to depart her place within the Hemicycle to her deputy, Stéphane Chouin, after his appointment to the federal government, on October 12, 2025. But nothing occurred as deliberate: because the municipal elections approached, she encountered the latter’s refusal to depart his mandate as councilor to exchange her. No luck for the elected Renaissance, whose identify had been circulating for Avenue de Ségur for a number of months and who had modified substitutes in 2024 in anticipation.
As required by regulation, a by-election was due to this fact known as in mid-October 2025 by the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, inside three months. The second spherical is about for January 25. The 52-year-old rheumatologist, who’s campaigning for the third time, should this time persuade the legitimacy of her new substitute, Marie-Philippe Lubet, a neighborhood elected official from her constituency, member of Horizons, to sit down in her place.
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