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PS: Rolland, Hanotin, Klein ... the succession of quadruple mayors

2021-03-21T17:49:36.621Z


They are called Johanna Rolland, Mathieu Klein or Mathieu Hanotin… Marked by the rout of the Socialist Party in 2017, they present themselves as


“We can no longer keep young people waiting.

We, the former elected officials, have an obligation to give them room, a moral obligation but also of survival.

Patrick Kanner, 63, former minister of François Hollande, understood this.

Noting the impossibility of rallying the left behind him, he has just withdrawn from the regional in Hauts-de-France to get down to work, specifies the senator, to "propel the new socialist generations".

After having lost, in 2017, all the levers of power at the national level, the "elephants" of the PS, challenged by the voters, are now gradually directed towards the exit by young shoots.

Before the regional and departmental meetings in June, where, hopes a pink deputy, "we will see, once again, what pool constitutes the party", the municipal authorities have already brought to light many socialist hopes.

All four.

Either by confirming them in their place of mayor - like Nathalie Appéré, in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) or Johanna Rolland, in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) - or by bringing them out of the shadows.

Like Mathieu Klein, Mathieu Hanotin or Michaël Delafosse who ended decades of reign, respectively center-right in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), communist in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) or socialist related in Montpellier (Hérault).

In Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol took over from the outgoing mayor PS by crushing the right.

"It is more than ever the hour of social democracy"

"These young mayors are no longer apparatchiks whose culture of apparatus has long forged the party," explains an elected PS.

They are less doctrinaire and therefore much more moderate than radical.

"" We are the left of reality, the one which despite the difficulties experienced by the PS at the national level, seeks to translate into action, in the territories, the fight against inequalities ", supports Mathieu Klein.

For the mayor of Nancy who, like Johanna Rolland or Nathalie Appéré, supported Manuel Valls during the primary of the left in 2017, it is "more than ever the hour of social democracy".

A political position rejected, however, since 2014 by the socialist rebels and part of the radical left.

A social democracy which, develops Mathieu Klein, "makes ecology and social justice rhyme and makes security, public order, secularism and Europe, the republican backbone".

Marked by the rout of their party five years ago, this new-look generation had to appropriate the ecological demand of a left electorate increasingly suspicious of productivism and technical progress, the values traditional PS.

But if the young “pink” mayors have gone green, it is with a claimed social touch.

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No question, in the name of ecological taxation, to put back in the street Red caps or yellow vests.

“All our public policies are now under environmental scrutiny.

Without forgetting the modest populations ”, underlines one in the entourage of Johanna Rolland.

All of Nantes' social housing will thus be heated in a district heating network.

In Montpellier, Matthieu Delafosse has just launched free public transport.

Committed to secularism

Another important difference between these quadras and their elders, sometimes tempted by communitarianism: their commitment to secularism.

In Rennes, a charter and a secularity advisory committee have been set up by Nathalie Appéré.

"The attacks of January 2015 accelerated this ambition", explains one to the town hall of the Breton capital.

In September, Matthieu Delafosse was the first mayor to write a charter of secularism, the signature of which conditions the allocation of grants to associations.

None of these young elected officials had participated, in November 2019, in the very controversial March against Islamophobia.

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Finally, security is no longer a taboo.

In Nancy, local police will soon be deployed in the neighborhoods.

Municipal armed police, video surveillance ... Barely arrived at the controls, Mathieu Hanotin, him, placed his mandate as mayor of Saint-Denis under the seal of the fight against insecurity.

In 2022, there is no question of fading behind a Green

Eager - and forced - to renew his troops, Olivier Faure, number 1 of the PS, highly contested by the party leaders, has never stopped "raising" these quadras.

Matthieu Delafosse was promoted to co-president of the Territorial Innovation Observatory and joined the national secretariat.

Johanna Rolland, already a member of the National Council and the PS office, will become its spokesperson.

"These young mayors are masters at home but the addition of local responsibilities does not make a national project", warns, however, Patrick Kanner.

“Being mayor of large cities does not leave much time to think about an ideological line,” slips an elephant mischievously.

A caution that is not unanimous.

"We can draw a parallel with 1977, when a wave of PS mayors preceded and prepared the victory of 1981", wants to believe for his part, Rémi Féraud, PS senator from Paris.

For 2022, in any case, there is no question for the succession to see the PS fade behind a Green.

Their standard bearer?

Anne Hidalgo.

While waiting for their turn ...

Source: leparis

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