For some mayors from the right, the question does not arise.
Supporters of Emmanuel Macron, they will campaign for him until the end.
This is the case for example of Karl Olive (DVD) in Poissy or, in the neighboring town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, that of Arnaud Péricard (DVD), the referent of the Horizons party.
Those who had bet on Valérie Pécresse are faced with a choice.
From the evening of the first round, the unfortunate candidate of the Republicans, herself elected from Yvelines, had set the trend by announcing that she would grant her ballot to the outgoing president, without however explicitly calling to vote for him.
Pierre Bédier, the president of the departmental council and boss of the LR federation of Yvelines had done the same a few moments later.
Since then, many elected officials or mayors from this right have expressed their personal intentions.
It will be overwhelmingly a vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron.
But if some will go to the polls with their eyes closed, for others it will be necessary to be violent.
“In any case, I will not campaign”
In Versailles, where Emmanuel Macron achieved 33% in the first round ahead of Éric Zemmour (18.48%), the mayor (DVD) François de Mazières announces that he will vote "obviously" for the first.
The elected official evokes a number of reasons, one of which relates to the current international context: “We must not forget the ambiguous position of Marine Le Pen vis-à-vis Putin”.
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For Laurent Brosse, the mayor (DVD) of Conflans, the approach also seems to be self-evident.
The man who supported Valérie Pécresse's candidacy in the first round explains "that in view of the scores achieved by the extremes, in particular by the far right, we must not underestimate the level of discontent, even anger, in our country” and that “faced with the challenges that France is and will be facing, I will naturally vote Emmanuel Macron in the second round”.
"The choice is quite limited", ironically for his part Pierre Fond, the mayor (LR) of Sartrouville who would have "preferred another second round".
The elected official who says he is "aware of the weaknesses of this five-year term" will vote for Macron but "not with joy of heart".
"In any case, I'm not going to campaign for him," he concludes.
"I can't vote for him so I will vote blank"
Some have even more reservations.
This is the case of Pascal Thévenot, the mayor (DVD) of Vélizy-Villacoublay where Valérie Pécresse was elected in 2020 to the municipal council and where she voted alongside him last Sunday.
For the second round, he prefers not to position himself.
“I am one of the people who consider that voters do not expect voting instructions and do not want to have them to make their decision, he explains.
Personally, I felt despised by Emmanuel Macron, who considers us more like state agents.
I can't vote for him so I'll vote blank.
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He too will not align himself with the majority position.
Jacques Myard, the mayor (LR) of Maisons-Laffitte, will not vote for the outgoing candidate, whom he says has "constantly denounced politics for years".
From 2018, Jacques Myard had published an anti-Macron pamphlet entitled “Marabout at the Élysée”.
The former deputy notably criticizes the outgoing president for having “constantly despised the French by his pithy little sentences”.
He also believes that "its record is the embodiment of its contradictions, its inconsistencies, its volte-face and head-to-tail in all areas".
“He has no vision for the future of France, concludes the mayor of Maisons-Laffitte.
His famous
at the same time
is a total deception.
I don't trust him.
He will not have my vote in the second round.
No one to say they will vote for Le Pen
And the support for Marine Le Pen in all this?
As for the few mayors of Yvelines who have brought their sponsorship to the RN candidate, we are not necessarily going to vote for her.
“My sponsorship was not a political commitment.
I felt it was a democratic act to allow the candidate to run, says Jean-Louis Fournier, the mayor (SE) of Saint-Illiers-la-Ville, near Mantes-la-Jolie.
I didn't do it for Éric Zemmour because for me he was a puppet.
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Difficult to know, however, for whom the city councilor will vote on Sunday, April 24.
He didn't want to say it.
The mayor (SE) of Mousseaux-sur-Seine, Gérard Ours-Prisbil also explains his approach by the same logic: to offer all "Republican candidates" the opportunity to present themselves.
“I would also have done it for Jean-Luc Mélenchon,” he said.
