Beautiful duels in perspective. The list of Les Républicains candidates for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19 in the Yvelines will be presented this Tuesday at 3 p.m. during a national investiture commission. After the severe defeat in the presidential election, the party is bringing in some new blood. Some headliners could be talked about.
In the sixth district of Yvelines (Saint-Germain-en-Laye), the Republicans will thus present Thibault de Montbrial. Unknown to the general public, this lawyer was Valérie Pécresse’s advisor during the presidential election campaign. He was notably in charge of security issues, an area he knows well for having founded the think tank on internal security (CRSI) and covering a few sensational trials.
Lawyer for the Beltrame families and Magnanville police officers
His CV is quite thick in criminal matters. This jurist has distinguished himself in particular by his support for the police: he was the defender of the family of Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, killed by a terrorist in 2018, of Xavier Jugelé, the policeman shot dead on the Champs-Élysées in 2017 and the family of Jessica Schneider, murdered with her companion Jean-Baptiste Salvaing in Magnanville in 2016. He also represents the police officers involved in the control of Cédric Chouviat, who died in 2020.
This 53-year-old former paratrooper claims to be a “patriot” and assumes to be a supporter of authority, with strong and sometimes divisive ideas. His ideas could appeal to the fairly conservative lands of the 6th constituency where Natalia Pouzyreff (LREM) is a candidate for re-election.
The other known name of this cast will host the seventh precinct. In the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine sector, LR has chosen to invest Laurent Brushthe mayor of this town of 35,000 inhabitants, also a departmental councillor.
Having become mayor for the first time in 2014, this social law lawyer had been re-elected in the first round of the municipal elections of 2020. His local base is enough to threaten the re-election of Michèle de Vaucouleurs, outgoing deputy (MoDem).
“The level of the left will be higher”
We also note the arrival of Pauline Winocour-Lefevre on the 9th, in “replacement” of Patrick Stefanini, the former campaign manager of Valérie Pécresse hitherto approached before deciding not to appear. Internally, this forties, also vice-president of the departmental council, is very appreciated. It is considered as a rising value of the local line.
Pierre Bédier, president of the LR federation of Yvelines will closely monitor the ballot on his stronghold of the eighth (Mantes-la-Jolie) where his protege Michel Vialay will have a hard time dealing with the left and in particular LFI, which achieved a high score in the presidential election. The device negotiations should allow a union candidacy that EELV could carry. “The level of the left will be higher but I am not sure that everyone will vote LFI, analyzes Pierre Bédier. La France insoumise will be high, too, on the eleventh (sector of Trappes). »
The complete list of candidates (the name of that of the fourth constituency has not yet been decided): 1st: Olivier De La Faire; 2nd: Pascal Thévenot; 3rd: Bertrand Coquard; 5th: Alexandra Dublanche; 6th: Thibault de Montbrial; 7th: Laurent Brosse; 8th: Michel Vialay; 9th: Pauline Winocour-Lefevre, 10th: Anne Cabrit; 11th: Philippe Benassaya; 12th: Francois Moutot.