Orfiror or not a candidate, support the popular primary or stay away from the election: less than three months of the first round, the left ediles are reduced to difficult choices.
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Inquire about the state of mind of the left mayors at three months of the presidential election, ask them to whom their sponsorship will be exposed to polite refusal to express themselves: “The Mayor does not wish to comment on this news for the moment.” In more often, regrets about the state of the left and sometimes tenus hopes. One thing is certain, facing the multitude of candidates on the left, some elected officials give their fingertips their sponsorship to that of their political family. Or not at all.
At the end of last year, two declarations launched, with great pomp, a call to the unit of the left. The first is the Oath of Romainville , on the initiative of the mayor, François Dechy, arrived at the head of this city of Seine-Saint-Denis in 2020 with a list of union of the left. “We are oathing to grant our sponsorships only when the conditions of the rally have been met,” clamited, on October 16, 2021, this small hundred elected. Then, on December 18, 2021, some 1,500 reinforcements, for many socialists, published a Tribune in Sunday log, to ask for the organization primary.
Since then, the popular primary that these elected officials wanted to be reduced to a mere investiture. Among the four main candidates selected – with Yannick Jadot, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Anne Hidalgo – Christiane Taubira is the only one to have announced that she would recognize the result. At the risk of energizing part of the socialist apparatus and elected representatives, Anne Hidalgo, after being favorable to it, excluded. “This primary will not take place. (…) If citizen primary leads to generating an additional application, we are no longer at all in the starting idea,” she said, Thursday, January 13, when from the presentation of his program.
“How do we find it?”
A conclusion that goes wrong in the ranks of the socialist elected officials. Benoît Payan, the Socialist Mayor of Marseille, took out his distances with the candidate, the same day, in a Interview Liberation. “We can not say,” I’m going to primary “on Monday, and Thursday,” I’m not going “(…),” he says. I will support the one who will come out winner of the primary. ” He is not the only socialist mayor to make doubts. Behind the scenes or openly, several elected small and large cities regret the confusion of instilized by these reversals.
In a small town of 900 souls from Finistère, Gourlizon, Emmanuelle Reasseur, a signatory of the December call, is these ediles that struggle to follow the successive flip-flops. “I am very disappointed that Anne Hidalgo is desolate primaryly, I had supported the appeal of the Mayors of Brittany [in a forum published online on October 5, 2021] to be the candidate of the Socialist Party. … “While noting that the initiative is falling, the mayor” does not change an opinion “:” I will give my sponsorship to the person who will come out of the popular primary, “she warns.
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