Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior, in charge of Citizenship – Jacques Witt / SIPA
Marlène Schiappa, Minister in charge of Citizenship, will head the list of the presidential majority (LREM) in the Paris section for the regional elections in Île-de-France, we learned on Monday from several executives of La Republic on the move,
confirming information from Figaro.
The head of the regional list of the presidential majority, Laurent Saint-Martin, must announce his top duos in the eight departmental sections of Île-de-France on Tuesday morning at a conference in Paris. The deputy LREM, rapporteur of the budget to the Assembly, must lead the departmental list of Val-de-Marne with as number two the Minister of Housing, Emmanuelle Wargon.
Betrayals but no exclusions
In the Hauts-de-Seine, it is the departmental councilor Aurélie Taquillain who will lead the list, number two of which will be Thierry Solère, ex-LR, deputy and adviser to the President of the Republic. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the spokesperson for LREM, Prisca Thevenot will lead the list.
In Val-d’Oise, Nathalie Elimas, Secretary of State in charge of Priority Education, will be number one: a way for the presidential majority to promote the one who is outgoing MoDem regional councilor, elected in 2015 on Valérie’s list Pécresse, and especially to counter his few fellow students of the Modem who chose to remain in the Pécresse majority, against the opinion of the party – but who were not excluded for all that.
Tensions in the majority
The distribution of the candidates of the “common house” of the presidential majority in all the lists was moreover made to the advantage of the movement of François Bayrou: the Democratic Movement will count 30% of candidates. Some 40% of them belong to La République en Marche, 20% to the center-right Agir party and 10% to the center-left party Territories of Progress. This breakdown has also created tensions within the majority: “The Modem has already done us a dirty blow with the graduates who stay at Pécresse, and we turn the other cheek,” sighs an LREM executive.
The list of the Paris section is particularly disputed: if Marlène Schiappa will be number two Senator LREM Julien Bargeton, none of the following six running mate does not belong to the party of Emmanuel Macron. “This was frankly badly negotiated”, judges another responsible walker. The head of the Yvelines list could also return to a MoDem, the deputy Jean-Noël Barrot, even if the place could be claimed by a figure of La République en Marche, the deputy Aurore Bergé.