The left can be satisfied.
The PS will keep at least four of the five regional presidencies it has held so far: Occitanie with, according to Ipsos / Sopra Steria estimates, an overwhelming score for Carole Delga (56.8%), New Aquitaine (Alain Rousset: 39.6%), Center-Val de Loire (François Bonnaud: 38.6%) and Bourgogne Franche-Comté (Marie-Guite Dufay: 42.2%).
Better, in Reunion, the various left Huguette Bello, who had merged her list with the socialist Ericka Bareigts, tipped the region by "leaving" Didier Robert (various right), who was seeking his third term.
In Brittany, the outgoing president of the PS, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, who came largely ahead, with almost 30% of the vote, will have to wait for the “third round” to know his fate and lead negotiations, which promise to be complicated, with the walker Thierry Burlot, or, more likely, with the EELV candidate, Claire Desmares-Poirrier. The PS is the "driving force", welcomed this Sunday evening Olivier Faure. And he has a duty "to bring together all of the left and environmentalists to be able to move towards the presidential election," said the first secretary of the party. “I see that ecology is the only dynamic force. The mission is fulfilled and the result is very encouraging, ”declared Julien Bayou, the boss of the Greens. The "green and left bloc" emerges strengthened from these elections,EELV MEP Yannick Jadot commented on TF 1.
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Bayou: ecology is "the only dynamic force"
Since last night, however, the advantage has clearly gone to the Socialists over the Greens in the leadership race which will quickly oppose them for the presidential election.
In the Pays de la Loire, the only region that could have been conquered by the ecologists, the left led by the ecologist Matthieu Orphelin, missed his appointment.
The deputy for Maine et Loire (33%) could not prevail over the outgoing LR president, Christelle Morancais (47.7%).
Second lesson of these regional for the left: unity does not necessarily create strength.
The common lists in Hauts-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and even in Île-de-France have failed.
Note all the same in Île-de-France that, despite the calls to vote Valérie Pécresse launched by former personalities of the PS, such as Manuel Valls or Jean-Paul Huchon, the left list (33.6% according to Ipsos) no did not lose a voice between the two rounds.
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On the other hand, the three regions where the PS was not allied either in the first or even in the second round with the ecologists or the rebels, such as Occitanie, New Aquitaine or Brittany, remain in the socialist fold. . "This is the line of Olivier Faure, favorable to the widest possible gathering of the left at the price, if necessary, of an erasure of the PS, which is undermined", blows an opponent to number one party.
This week, two supporters of a socialist leadership on the left, Stéphane Le Foll, former minister of François Hollande, and Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, predecessor of Faure at the head of the PS, will come out of the woods. To “sell” each their book, but also to start making their difference heard. As a foretaste of the congress to be held in September. Environmentalists, whose primary candidates - after Sandrine Rousseau, Yannick Jadot, Éric Piolle and probably MP Delphine Batho - who will declare themselves in the coming days, will also have to determine their strategy for 2022 ...
