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Departmental in Ille-et-Vilaine: a copy and paste of the Regionals – Rennes

Unless there is a change, on June 13 and 20, Bretillian voters are invited to elect their departmental advisers. Main stake of an extraordinary poll, crisis of covid-19 obliges: will the socialist Jean-Luc Chenut be renewed at the head of Ille-et-Vilaine, a Department weighing 1.172 billion euros budget and employing 4,500 agents?

The elected representative of Rheu can now count on a relatively comfortable majority with 16 cantons out of a total of 27. But the PS, which appointed its first candidates in a vote in the Federal Council this Saturday, April 3, we remain cautious . “Experience shows that an elected official who is believed to be indestructible can lose. It is an election where the personality of the candidates plays a role. Three cantons apart, it can go quickly, ”said Ludovic Coulombel, president of the PS Group in the Department. While welcoming nevertheless to be able to count on a president “known and recognized” and “a correct balance sheet despite the crisis”. In the meantime, the rose party is continuing negotiations with its historic partners – radicals, communists and Génération.s – with a view to forming an alliance on the left but without Europe Écologie les Verts or La France Insoumise.

EELV with the UDB, the Insoumis alone

On the EELV side, which will unveil its candidates in mid-April, it is with the UDB, Bretagne Écologie, Génération Écologie and Nouvelle Donne that we are indeed discussing today. Like what has been achieved at the regional level. “We are not against the PS or the departmental majority but we are for an ecological alternative”, explains Patrick Anne, one of the coordinators for EELV in Ille-et-Vilaine. “We can bring new things. Our programs are different, especially on the way of working. “

As for the rebels, it is alone that they will leave for this Bretillian election. Here again as for the Regionals. With partial coverage of the cantons. “We will try to be present directly or indirectly. There was no agreement built with other known forces, and we regret it, but we play politics, we are not headhunters. The program first, ”insists Rennes rebellious Jean-Paul Tual. And to prefer “the class struggle to the struggle for places”.

LREM prepares for the future

On the left as elsewhere, we know that the health context is the main obstacle to an election that does not raise the crowds. Difficult to campaign in these conditions. And then the presidential and legislative elections of 2017, which reshuffled the cards in France, are also in everyone’s mind. For the presidential party, lacking local roots and starting from zero, the departmental election does not look easy. This is why the République en Marche will not be present in all the cantons, undoubtedly favoring the most Rennes and urban areas among them.

As for the Regionals, it is thanks to alliances with centrists that the Macronist party – which will stop its candidates within a week – hopes to do well. “We have the ambition of a local establishment. The territorial network ensures the longevity of the movement and prepares the next deadlines ”, explains Judy Gueffen, head of the elections pole of the walkers in Ille-et-Vilaine. And to think more particularly of the municipal ones.

Who for the right?

Right and center-right, until then led by Vitréenne Isabelle Le Callennec, head of the opposition to the departmental council, the time is still for discussions. “You arrive a few days too early”, replies to the Telegram the patroness of the Republicans in the department. On paper, with 22 elected officials, the opposition group intends to continue to influence this election. But two uncertainties hover on the right. Who is the leader when Le Callennec has embarked on the battle for the regions? The question of the transmission of witnesses arises. And then with which centrists while LREM intends to duplicate the alliances already built around Modem and UDI at the regional level? We don’t know yet. So many questions which, at this stage, make the business of the National Rally. Fougerais Gilles Pennelle’s party, also head of the regional list, for its part planned to present candidates in all the cantons and under the same RN label.

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