Xavier Bertrand had launched it in early April: if he failed at the regional in his Hauts-de-France region, it would be the end of his political career.
The president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse follows suit on Monday: a defeat in the next regional elections, which she does not want to see postponed, "would spell the end of (her) political career".
"This meeting of the regional is a very important meeting with my constituents, I gave them everything for five years and therefore it will be up to them to decide what is my political future", explained the ex-LR Valérie Pécresse (Free!) On Franceinfo.
"If the Ile-de-France people think that I can be the bulwark that protects them, they will vote for me, if they think that someone else will do the job better, at that time, that will effectively mark the end of my career political, ”she added.
The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy is resolutely opposed to a "forced" postponement of the regional scheduled for June which she believes would constitute a "pretext" for LREM to avoid an "electoral rout".
"No compelling reason to move the elections"
"My conviction is that there is no compelling reason to move the regional and departmental elections a second time," insisted the regional president.
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For her, the consultation of mayors launched by the government, "it is desperately seeking a pretext for postponement" because "the truth is that we have an LREM party which fears an electoral rout".
"The postponement of a democratic meeting must be done in consensus, we cannot do it against the Senate, we cannot do it against the political parties, we cannot do it against the associations of elected officials regional and departmental ”, warned Mrs. Pécresse, who approves the decision of the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher to seize the Constitutional Council in the event of a new postponement.
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"I am convinced that if we voted for this second postponement of the elections, the objective is to vote for a third, the objective is that there is no electoral meeting before the presidential ”of 2022, she also estimated.