Barely reelected to the presidency of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Laurent Wauquiez recalled those evenings of electoral defeats. This obligation to “question oneself”. “I have not forgotten the lessons I learned from it,” he announces before commenting on his victory. A “frank” victory which, according to him, “recalls an essential lesson in politics”: “We do not always win by remaining faithful to what we are”. The Auvergnat insists, he has managed to hold “the clear course” that he set himself six years ago, when he swept the region to the left.
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“This clear course is respect for the word given”, he analyzes. And to enumerate: “stopping the waste of public money”, the priority given to security, the “refusal of communitarianism”, the “same attention” paid to each territory.
Accused by the Greens of having “siphoned off the voices of the far right”
“This clear course is still loyalty to strong values. Politics does not grow in denials ”, continues the president of the region, welcoming the results. “This evening, the extremes have fallen sharply in our region because we are leaving them no ground to prosper,” he continues in front of his activists gathered in a restaurant in the Confluence district of Lyon.
In the opposing camps, we displayed the face of bad days. In front of the press, the ecologist Fabienne Grebert nevertheless tries to look good by congratulating himself on his result around 33%. If the Greens do not transform the trial of the municipal elections, they can nevertheless boast of having become the first opposition force on the left. “We have one of the best cumulative scores of environmentalists and left-wing forces in France,” she says. And to accuse Laurent Wauquiez of having “siphoned off the voices of the national rally. “Today, the dikes have jumped between the Republican right and the extreme right”, adds the elected Annecy.
Andrea Kotarac, RN candidate, had a hard time masking his disappointment, preferring to attribute the reasons for his failure (around 11%, or twice less than in 2015) to the low mobilization of voters. “With such a rate of abstention, we could not hope for big changes, he says. We must keep in mind that the legitimacy of this assembly is still to be discussed. “
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