Will postpone, not postpone?
Will the regional elections take place as planned on June 13 and 20?
Laurent Saint-Martin, who was the guest of the “Talk Le Figaro” on Thursday, impatiently awaits the verdict.
Primarily concerned, the LREM deputy for Val-de-Marne, is also a candidate for the presidency of the Île-de-France region.
"We will see, but we must, I believe, vote in June,"
he said.
Assuring that
"the government also has a clear position and today sees no obstacle to their being held on the agreed dates",
the subject will be debated in the Assembly on Tuesday and in the Senate on Wednesday.
Discussions will focus on the date, but also and above all on the conditions for campaigning.
It will be
"To the government to express the final decision,
" he said.
Concerned that the debate be respected in Parliament
,
the Member also insists on the fundamental role that political parties have to play in this consultation
.
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In Île-de-France, how to embody the
"central force",
in this election, even though elected MoDem members of the outgoing majority want to continue with Valérie Pécresse?
"There is no doubt, the presidential majority is united behind me with all the political parties that compose it,"
says Saint-Martin.
In terms of employment, economic development, investment, the fight for equal opportunities and the environment, the Walker assures that
"everything that has been demonstrated at the national level, we will demonstrate at the regional scale ”
.
Project against project
For him, there is no doubt that the
"central force"
will be him.
“Political overtaking is not a hazy concept,”
he defends.
I refuse to be the candidate of a camp, of an ideology already installed
.
"
To distinguish himself from the politics of Valérie Pécresse, he intends to be
" the candidate for concrete solutions, not just announcements and communication ".
Insinuating that the outgoing president has other ambitions than the region,
"I am a candidate for the sole presidency of Île-de-France for the next six years, not for anything else,"
insists the thirty-
something
.
The candidate aims to bring together
“practical solutions”,
with, for example, a regional police force, to secure transport and high schools.
"We cannot have the competence of transport and not ensure the coordination of the safety of the users",
insists the general rapporteur of the budget.
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Confident, despite the difficulties ahead for his party in this election, he will face the outgoing president, Valérie Pécresse (Free!), Jordan Bardella (RN), Audrey Pulvar (PS), Julien Bayou (EELV) and Clémentine Autain (BIA).
"LREM is not a dead star,"
he defends, proud of the national record.
The judgment of Ile-de-France residents, he hopes, will be made project against project.
"The rest, all these stories of mergers, alliances, even the Republican front, is far from their concerns, they just want their problems to be answered,"
he concludes.
