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Patrick Kanner: "This ballot will be a test for the PS"

2020-02-20T19:39:14.098Z


The former minister, president of the Socialist group in the Senate, senator from the North, was the guest of Talk-Le Figaro this Thursday.


"An electoral tunnel opens." On the horizon, the municipal elections, of course, but, very quickly, the senators and the regional ones. This prospect seems to stimulate Patrick Kanner, guest of "Talk Le Figaro" Thursday. In its sights, the conquest of the Hauts-de-France region. The boss of the Socialist group in the Senate boots on the presidency - letting "the party authorities decide" - but his ambition is quite clear.

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"In general, we say that we never quote his opponent, but I quote him with courtesy", he slips about Xavier Bertrand, at the helm of Hauts-de-France since 2016. "He will be a candidate for his re-election to make the region his springboard for another deadline, not to say his doormat, " quips Kanner. "Some say that I must take my place," says the senator from the North, who intends to repair "a democratic anomaly", pointing to the absence of the left in the Hauts-de-France Regional Council. "Mr. Bertrand, today, finds himself

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Source: lefigaro

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