Officially a presidential candidate since Wednesday, March 24, Xavier Bertrand nonetheless remains at the top of the list in Hauts-de-France for the regional next June.
The outgoing president of the region intends to conduct the two campaigns in parallel.
His opponents see it as a form of disrespect.
“Tonight, Xavier Bertrand announced for the umpteenth time that he was a candidate for the 2022 presidential election. Yet he is already a candidate for the 2021 regional elections ... Does the region still interest him?
For him, the Hauts-de-France are only a springboard, “
quipped on Twitter Sébastien Chenu, the head of the National Gathering list.
The one who is also an RN deputy for the North denounced
"An insult to the inhabitants who are waiting for a regional president who protects them from unemployment, insecurity and Islamism"
.
“Instead of devoting his energy to the inhabitants of Hauts-de-France hard hit by the epidemic, Xavier Bertrand is showing off his personal ambitions. Our region is not a market. She needs a full time president. France or Hauts-de-France, you have to choose ”
, judged on Twitter the head of the LREM list Laurent Pietraszewski.
The current Secretary of State for Pensions noted to AFP that
“in his interview
(in Point, Editor's note)
, he said nothing about Hauts-de-France.
He puts democracy in difficulty by doing this, whereas today we must be at the rendezvous of democracy!
He is standing for a ballot which he does not speak about, ”
lamented the macronist.
"How do you want to run for two elections at the same time?" Unless you have the gift of ubiquity ... ",
mocked for his part Patrick Kanner, the president of the Socialist group in the Senate, who made an agreement of union with the other left forces.
“This means that his political, intellectual interest is not for the region.
It does not seem possible to me to be a candidate for three months in two elections with such different logics "
, added Patrick Kanner, stressing that Xavier Bertrand
" does not have the historical destiny of a de Gaulle to whom he constantly refers. "
.
In September 2019, on France 2, Xavier Bertrand had however warned that he would first have to go through his re-election in Hauts-de-France to confirm his candidacy for the presidential election.
“It is obvious that if six million people do not want me to continue, are not satisfied with my action, do not agree with my ideas, my proposals,
(then)
, in these cases, I do not 'have no credit for being a presidential candidate ”.
