“Aren’t you going to vote Mariani anyway?” “In front of the cinema in Port-de-Bouc, young Ilyes can hardly believe his friend. “Frankly, I’m going to watch the programs,” Vincent replies. Mariani and Muselier, they’re close anyway. I’ll make up my mind like this. “
In this historic bastion of the Communist Party, located on the edge of the Etang de Berre, the candidate of the left-wing coalition in the regional elections, Jean-Laurent Félizia, came largely in the lead, with no less than 40.81% of the vote. . “When I got to the polling station, I didn’t even know there were regional elections,” Ilyes smiles. I came to vote for the Communists at the departmental schools. I asked: “What’s the list where the PCF is?” And the assessors informed me. But next Sunday, clearly, it will be anything but the RN. “
A committee for the left
Indeed, for this second round, after a few hours of hesitation and hesitation, the left-wing candidate withdrew and announced his intention to vote for Renaud Muselier on behalf of the Republican front. But with his second position, four and a half points behind the RN candidate Thierry Mariani, the outgoing LR president knows that he needs a carry-over of left-wing votes to ensure re-election. Also, in the morning, this Wednesday, Renaud Muselier tried to send a message to the electorate of Jean-Laurent Félizia, in order to rally him to his cause.
During a press conference, Renaud Muselier thus “committed”, in the event of victory on Sunday in the second round, to create a “committee” to give voice to the left and environmentalists. This committee of about twenty people could meet at the regional hotel before each plenary assembly and each standing committee and could each time “propose two deliberations, a wish and a motion”, which will be concretely tabled by the president of the committee. LR group or a member of the regional executive. “I say to the people who voted for Jean-Laurent Félizia that by voting for me, they are blocking”, launches Renaud Muselier.
The abstention option
A call of the foot which finds only a very moderate echo with the Provençal left, already scalded by a similar promise of the candidate LR Chistrian Estrosi. At the time, in the same configuration, the mayor of Nice had set up a “Territorial Council” of some 150 members, outside the regional council. A real “gas factory”, by Renaud Muselier’s own admission, which has never worked.
“Any signal to listen and to reach out is positive,” said Capucine Edou, former head of the list of Jean-Laurent Félizia in the Bouches-du-Rhône. After that, it shouldn’t be a gimmick. “” It was impossible for Renaud Muselier to do less than this proposal, plague Jérémy Bacchi, the boss of the Communists in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Our voters will judge by evidence. Renaud Muselier must have a real will to put this council in place, at the risk of aggravating the political crisis in force in our country, and abstention. “
In the aisles of the Port-de-Bouc market, many voters have no intention of going to vote this Sunday. “This is the first time that I have not voted for these regions,” says Nathalie. Politics has disappointed me so much. When we see the mess that was the management of the health crisis, what is the point? “” Policies are all the same, sighs Karim. They ask us a little before the elections, and afterwards, they no longer calculate us. Not even a look. “No politician has broad enough shoulders to solve all the problems,” says Sylvie. I haven’t voted since the last presidential elections, because anyway, it’s always a disappointment… ”Last Sunday, 72.9% of voters in Port-de-Bouc shunned the ballot box.