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Macron and his majority in the trap of a hybrid election

2021-02-16T19:49:30.291Z


DECRYPTION - Knowing that it is at a local disadvantage, the President of the Republic's party is struggling to find a strategy for regional elections.


It is a hybrid ballot.

Straddling two issues.

For the upcoming regional elections, Emmanuel Macron and his majority are navigating between hope of victory and fear of rout.

The President of the Republic would like to create a surprise, as in the European elections of May 2019. Against all expectations, his personal involvement in the end of the campaign had allowed LREM to come in second, touch-key with the National Gathering .

A lesser evil in view of the derailment that was promised to the presidential party at the end of the crisis of "yellow vests".

For the upcoming regional elections, Emmanuel Macron and his majority are navigating between hope of victory and fear of rout.

But the President of the Republic also sees the hypothesis of a new electoral beating, in the extension of that recorded in the municipal elections of March and June 2020. LREM had not succeeded in establishing itself in any large city.

According to figures recently released by the Interior Ministry, the party even recorded a score of 2.2% nationally when its right-wing opponents and

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Source: lefigaro

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