The ballot, dematerialized, opened at 8 hours Friday and will continue until Saturday 14 hours. The winner will be announced at 2:30 pm at a press conference.
Le Monde with AFP
Eric Ciotti or Valérie Pécresse, who will be appointed as candidate the Republicans (LR) in the presidential election? It is up to the members of the slicing party, as for the first round. They started, Friday, December 3rd in the morning, to vote for the second round of their congress. The ballot, dematerialized, opened at 8 o’clock and will continue until Saturday 14 hours. The winner will be announced at 2:30 pm at a press conference.
The two contenders in the running are Eric Ciotti, arrived slightly in mind with 25.6% of the votes in the first round closed Thursday afternoon, and Valérie Pécresse, who totaled 25% of the ballots. The member of the Alpes-Maritimes defends a right-hand line on safety and immigration, to bring back to the voters attempted by the far right. The President of Ile-de-France plays the map of competence and the order to bring together his political family.
Shortly after the announcement of the results Thursday, the three unfortunate candidates of the first round (Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand and Philippe Juvin) supported Valérie Pécresse. Which theoretically, in the event of important postponements, favors it, because it would allow it to be majority without difficulty in the second round. A low mobilization of the members, thinking that the election is already “folded”, could nevertheless favor Eric Ciotti.
Decarderialized ballot
For his part, the President of the Senate, Gérard Lacher, announced his support to Valérie Pécresse, Thursday in the evening. “My political course and my vision of France guiding my choice,” he wrote in a statement. Mr. Larcher, who had been president of the support committee of M me Pécresse to the last regional elections, had not positioned before the first round. He stresses, however, having “respect and friendship for Eric Ciotti, for the strength of his convictions”. In the second round, “Everyone will vote according to his convictions. But, from Saturday night, it is the gathering that will be our roadmap around that or the one who will be appointed by our members,” he says. ” / p>
For midnight Friday, the two finalists no longer have the right to express themselves publicly, and this duty of reserve will last until the announcement of the results. In this campaign between two lightning towers, both hammered their message Thursday night.
“I am a woman who wins and who does”, assured Valérie Pécresse, glowing with a “ability to gather all the sensibilities of the right”: according to her, “on the side of the Elysée, they will have to rewrite their scenario “a second round against the extreme right. “Dare the right because we need it,” said Eric Ciotti, according to whom “a positioning too close to the macronism will in no way will beat the president of the outgoing Republic”.
The ballot is dematerialized but in support of computers are made available to members in a number of permanence open by the federations. In the first round, the rate of participation had reached 80.89%, on an electoral body of 139,742 members.