To encourage the re-election of Valérie Pécresse at the head of Île-de-France, 511 mayors from the Ile-de-France region are launching a “
call for the territories
”.
The long list of elected officials, of which
Le Figaro
was able to take note, is part of the extension of the “
Île-de-France Rassemblage
” collective, started in September to prepare for the regional ballot on June 20 and 27.
This first step was initiated by a young generation embodied by right-wing mayors such as Florence Portelli (Taverny), Laurent Jeanne (Champigny), Vincent Jeanbrun (La Haye-les-Roses) or Jean-Didier Berger (Clamart), probable director of the countryside of Pécresse.
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"A list of regional interest"
The president of “
Libres!
Has not yet declared herself a candidate for a second term, but the official announcement is only a matter of weeks away, knowing that May 17 is the deadline for submitting candidatures.
“
Valérie is a captain in the storm.
She wants to fulfill her mission to the end and if it is necessary to go through a re-election to finish the work, she could lead a list of regional interest
”, notes the regional councilor Geoffroy Didier, founding member of Libres!
and member of the LR political bureau.
In the meantime, the municipalities convinced by the record of the outgoing presidency are raising the desire.
The support comes from the Republicans in large majority but at Valérie Pécresse, we are delighted to be able to count on a wider arc, from the traditional right to the Walkers, where there are also freed from partisan logics since some elected officials want to stay in the extension of a five-year term that they have fully assumed within the regional majority.
"
National logics are sometimes inconsistent with local logics
"
“I support Valérie Pécresse out of consistency and conviction. I have friends hired behind the head of the LREM list (Laurent Saint-Martin) but they do it because their party asks for it when they have nothing to reproach the balance sheet,
”says Frédéric Valletoux. Mayor Agir de Fontainebleau is convinced that the logic of the
"common house
", praised by the president of the Modem François Bayrou, is waking up because of the proximity of a presidential election. The pressure of the apparatuses does not prevent the four regional advisers Agir to line up behind Pécresse. The president of the Modem group in the region, Béatrice Lecouturier, is also followed by a large number of her colleagues. “
National logics are sometimes inconsistent with local logics
», Valletoux judge.
In Poissy, the mayor, close to Emmanuel Macron, joined the call out of pragmatism.
"
Me, I judge Valérie Pécresse in the light of her record, remarkable efficiency, as we see in the health crisis
," said Karl Olive.
The mayor chairs “
Génération Terrain
”, a movement created in 2017 with Arnaud Péricard, mayor of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and 250 elected officials, many of whom want the re-election of Valérie Pécresse.
A
"snowball effect
"
In La Haye-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun recognizes a
“snowball effect
” driven by the desire to tell
citizens
to what extent the region has “
become
” an essential economic support. He does not want to see this "mobilization as the sign of an easy victory but what he fears above all is the"
bad faith
"of certain macronists who supported the regional majority during the term of office to leave it in the home stretch. Thursday, Vincent Jeanbrun discovered an email from the president of Agir Franck Riester affirming that the outgoing president had refused to "
work
" with them.
"Ile-de-France residents will sanction inconsistency
", wants to believe the young elected official, for whom such "
posture
”can only cause a“
feeling of waste
”in compatible Macrons.
A close friend of Valérie Pécresse is categorical: “
If Valérie freed herself from partisan contingencies, it is not to make device agreements.
Unlike Xavier Bertrand, she is not obsessed with Macron even if she thinks that structural reforms have not been made and that there are gaping loopholes in secularism, security and the fight against communitarianism
”.
Île-de-France is home to 1,288 municipalities, but the 511 signatory mayors represent more than 51% of the regional population, more than 50% of towns with more than 30,000 inhabitants and 55% of towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants.
85% of LR or related mayors have already signed the appeal, like Patrick Ollier, president of the Greater Paris metropolis and mayor of Rueil-Malmaison.
Beyond the mayors, out of the eight presidents of the Ile-de-France departments, the five from the right and from the center will be with Pécresse.
Ditto in Paris where all the mayors of the right-wing arrondissements will be there, including the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement, Rachida Dati.
"
Bring a diverse majority to life
"
At the end of his mandate, Pécresse's allies praised his ability to "
support a diverse majority
". They want to believe that she will reap the rewards.
"This call is proof that Valérie Pécresse embodies a very large gathering beyond partisan labels
", considers Geoffroy Didier.
By observing the political plateau of the 2021 match, he guesses a fight against “
four left-wing lists
” since the LREM candidate is himself from the PS. As for Clémentine Autain (LFI), Audrey Pulvar (PS) and Julien Bayou (EELV), the three illustrate, according to him, an
“extremely retrograde left
” in “
total discrepancy
” with “
the emergencies and needs
” of Ile-de-France residents. "
This is why we want to bring together all those who consider this left to be dangerous for the Île-de-France region
".