"What is this mess?" , exclaims Xavier Bertrand. While the regional elections are scheduled for March 2021, the prospect of a postponement of the poll to 2022 by the executive - that is to say after the presidential - mentioned in the JDD , annoyed the regional presidents. If none of them has been officially contacted, the subject is well on the table. “It is true that the president and all his interlocutors did not close the door. The president is thinking about it, ” confirms a majority official at Le Figaro .
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During his lunch Monday at the Elysée Palace, with Renaud Muselier, head of the Regions of France, and in the presence of Minister Jacqueline Gourault, the Head of State was very clear, according to information from Le Figaro . "I help you [financially] if you help me postpone the regional elections until after the presidential election, because I have political opponents among you," said Emmanuel Macron, as Renaud Muselier told regional presidents that he then got on the phone. "I will not
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