If we put aside Corsica, with its territorial assembly with its own identity, France has twelve political regions.
Their color results from the 2015 elections;
At the time, Emmanuel Macron had not shaken up political labels or drawn support from the right and the left.
The PS at the head of five regions
It is buried said, still in the "old world" but the Socialist Party still presides five regions and not least the greater the
New Aquitaine
, the
Occitan
, the
UK,
the
Bourgogne Franche-Comté
and the
Center -Val-de-Loire
. All those leaving are also candidates for re-election. Alain Rousset has presided over Aquitaine then Nouvelle-Aquitaine since 1998, Carole Delga, former minister, took the head of Occitanie in 2015 with a plural majority (PS, PC, FG and EELV), and Marie-Guite Dufay ( Bourgogne Franche-Comté) at the end of a bitterly fought battle. The prize for seniority goes to François Bonneau, who has chaired the Center Val de Loire since 2007.
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In Brittany, the former regional president Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defense under François Hollande and then of Foreign Affairs under Emmanuel Macron, this weekend called his two heirs to "get married".
Former socialist allies, under the chaperoning of Le Drian, Loïg Chesnais-Girard and Thierry Burlot clash today.
The first, the outgoing president, is seeking a new mandate under his etiquette while the second has followed the same path as his mentor, and received the LREM anointing.
The Republicans at the head of five ... then three regions
On the evening of December 13, 2015, the Republicans could boast of presiding over five regions, with the support of the UDI and then of the MoDem.
Xavier Bertrand in the
Hauts-de-France
, Valérie Pécresse in
Ile-de-France
, Renaud Muselier in
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
Philippe Richert in the
Grand Est
, and Laurent Wauquiez in
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
.
But when the latter took the presidency of the Republicans, and bent the line to the right, Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse distanced themselves.
Both supporters of a Gaullist and social right, and Elyos ambition firmly rooted, they no longer belong to the Republicans.
Their re-election, announced by the polls, could not therefore be credited to LR.
The psychodrama of the formation of the Renaud Muselier en Paca list this year is just one episode of the regional saga, which experiences twists and turns with each election. Remember ... After having let the rumor of his candidacy run, Jean-Marie Le Pen proposes, for the National Front, that his granddaughter Marion Maréchal take the head of the FN list in 2015. Given the scores of the party of extreme right in this region, the right sends Christian Estrosi, who is campaigning very to the right. This is where Christophe Castaner will come into the light. On the evening of the first round, Marine Le Pen's niece is in the lead with 40.6% of the vote. The mayor of Forcalquier, elected from the PS and head of the rose party list for the regional deadline, withdraws in favor of his right-wing opponent to block the road to the FN. It's him,by its republican front, which definitively causes the Paca region to lose to the left. Michel Vauzelle had been its president since 1998.
In the Grand Est, a Paca scenario played out in 2015: everywhere, Florian Philippot, still Marine Le Pen's right-hand man, came first in the first round.
On the left, the Socialist Party asks its candidate to withdraw in order to oppose a republican front to the candidate of the FN.
Jean-Pierre Masseret refuses.
It is ultimately LR Philippe Richert who is elected.
Richert resigned in September 2017, entrusting the keys of the greater region to Jean Rottner.
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In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Laurent Wauquiez had overwhelmed winning the primary and then a triangular.
He wanted to make the region the territorial base of greater ambitions, by implementing national ideas, but his line at the head of the LRs made waves, too to the right.
After leaving the party presidency, he retreated to his region and is a candidate for his succession.
The center at the head of a region
Resulting from the merger between “low” and “high”,
Normandy
has been held since 2015 by Hervé Morin, a former minister, armed with great ambitions, but whom competition with François Bayrou's Modem has reduced to a regional destiny.
He had won the region on the wire, against the FN candidate Nicolas Bay.
The Greens and the RN, no region
In 2015, the ecological fight had not won over the entire political class.
Europe Écologie-les Verts then presents lists in all metropolitan areas.
But the result is disappointing: in some regions, below the 5% mark, no environmental candidate is even elected.
The party manages to obtain 64 regional mandates, not enough to weigh in the executives and obtain exposed positions vis-à-vis the PS, which benefits from 355 regional elected representatives, or LR which has 493.
As for the National Rally, which still bore the name of the National Front, it came out on top in many regions in the first round, without succeeding in creating the alliances which would make it possible to build management majorities after the second.
But he was able to elect 358 councilors to the regional executives.