Former pollster Jérôme Sainte-Marie RN candidate in Hautes-Alpes
Former pollster Jérôme Sainte-Marie, 58, who was already in charge of training executives of the National Rally (RN), is an RN candidate in the legislative elections in the Hautes-Alpes, he confirmed on Monday. at Agence France-Presse.
“I had decided a long time ago to get involved in the political life of my department. This is the constituency where I live in Saint-André-de-Rosans, I am not a parachutist. I live there three or four days a week and the rest in Paris, as deputies do”he emphasizes.
A former pollster with the CSA and BVA institutes, Jérôme Sainte-Marie will notably face in this 1D Hautes-Alpes constituency the outgoing Macronist MP Pascale Boyer and the socialist and candidate of the New Popular Front Marie-José Allemand.
Theorist of a society divided between “elite bloc” And “popular block”with a “very pronounced interest in the “yellow vest” movement”it is defined as “sovereignist”opposed to the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and opposed the 2005 referendum on the European constitutional treaty.
He also defends the caution of the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, on the repeal of the pension reform, which the party no longer makes an immediate priority.
“Commitment” to return to the reform Macron was “reaffirmed quite clearly”but after this postponement of the legal age of departure to 64 years, “going back takes a long time, it can be costly and worrying for partners or investors”he says. “The public accounts are a fairly heavy liner to maneuver, so it is not one of the immediate things to do”justifies Jérôme Sainte-Marie.