French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal won in the 10th constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine department in Paris' inner suburbs, on the second round of the country's snap parliamentary elections on Sunday, July 7, with 58.2% of the vote, ahead of Socialist Cécile Soubelet, the candidate for the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) alliance, who obtained 41.8% of votes cast. Attal has therefore been re-elected as an MP. He had come out on top in the first electoral round, with 43.8% of the vote, against Soubelet (35.5%).
"Not a single vote must go to the Rassemblement National," he had declared in the period between the rounds, setting aside his virulent attacks on the Nouveau Front Populaire and calling for the establishment of a new coalition, which would bring together the right, left and center, to prevent the far-right party from coming to power. He defended the withdrawal of candidates from the presidential camp in a poor position for the second round, though he assured that this "does not mean rallying" behind the NFP. He repeatedly said that he is "sufficiently opposed to La France Insoumise [radical left] that [he] cannot be accused" of allying himself with the party's contentious founder, Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Appointed to the premiership in January, Attal was first elected as an MP for this constituency in 2017. In 2022, he was re-elected with 59.8% of the vote, against Soubelet (40.1%).
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