The left is holding on.
Despite the neck-and-neck scores of outgoing LR president Renaud Muselier (34.5%) and RN candidate Thierry Mariani (33%) in the first round of regional elections, PS / EELV / PCF candidate Jean-Laurent Felizia ( 16.5%) announced to maintain its list in the second, scheduled for Sunday, June 27.
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We had a collective debate (...). If the final results confirm the trends, we have decided to maintain the voice of the left and the ecology in the second round of this election
”, declared the person concerned. While the left; led by Christophe Castaner (PS), had withdrawn in the 2015 ballot, the candidate maintained that his party would not “disappear” this year. "
On June 27, you will bring to the Regional Council a team ready to defend you
," he assured his constituents.
“
In the second round we will have an opponent, Renaud Muselier, but above all an enemy, the National Rally which remains for us a force of exclusion, which remains for us a force of intolerance which must not prevail in our region.
Above all, we will continue to campaign for our ideas, our values,
”asserted the ecologist.
And to add: "
Sunday, I will call on all the voters of the left and the ecology who abstained (...) to mobilize widely to bring to life the values of the left, of ecology, in the next regional assembly.
"
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Jean-Laurent Felizia had left uncertainty over his intentions throughout the campaign. Faced with polls giving Thierry Mariani the lead in the first and second rounds in all cases, he was preparing for a dilemma. Maintain to exist in the regional hemicycle, at the risk of electing the RN? Or step aside again, even if it means having no elected representative for the next six years, without being assured of a defeat for Thierry Mariani? He ended up deciding. It remains to be seen whether his running mates will support him: Olivier Faure, the boss of the PS, has already indicated that in the event of an RN risk, there would be "
no socialist
On the lists. A "risk" which will be notably indexed on the decision of the eco-centrist Jean-Marc Governatori, who could bring his 5.1% of votes to Renaud Muselier.