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The presidential election is a unique election: we elect the President of the Republic who needs a majority to govern.
It is also an election that will have repercussions on the careers of local leaders: the ambitions and positioning of some will find comfort or, on the contrary, will be penalized by the choices and behaviors.
Then, there are the results that provide important indications for the majorities in charge in the various areas and in anticipation of the legislative elections in June.
How can we forget that in the future, an elected official will only be able to fill one spot. Which is the right one to keep or the one to run for?
Choices have already been made, others were waiting for this election. In a department dominated by the Republicans allied with the centrists, the elimination of François Fillon deprives his local supporters of a national future.
The affirmation of Marine Le Pen in many municipalities gives the National Front a foundation for future elections.
The unexpected extent of the vote in favor of Mélenchon, the split within the Socialist Party between pro-Macron supporters and the loyalists of Benoît Hamon, could favor or hinder agreements for joint lists in the legislative elections?
The positive dynamic and indirect power stemming from the probable presidency of Emmanuel Macron will give his movement the wings for local entrenchment?
So many questions to which yesterday evening began to provide answers…
here are excerpts from the first ones.
Leading are the two leaders of the local right, who, as can be seen, are showing less and less restraint in displaying their differences in vision and positioning.
Christian Estrosi (LR)
@EmmanuelMacron said he based himself neither on left nor right ideas but on a will to reform. That’s why I will support him
We must unite to reform our country despite our disagreements. We must unite to defeat the @FN_official!
I was among those who warned @FrancoisFillon several times about the need to campaign against the @FN_official.
Eric Ciotti (LR)
The attitude of some deserting the fight or sabotaging François Fillon’s campaign cost us dearly and probably deprived us of victory.
I will refuse to enter into partisan combinations that go against the spirit of the Fifth Republic. This is why I am now calling on our political family to come together for the legislative elections. The victory of the right and center in the legislative elections is the only way to prevent Emmanuel Macron from continuing François Hollande’s disastrous policy.
Fabien Benard (MoDem):
The second round will be difficult, but we have great hope. We are very satisfied with the immediate announcement to support and vote for Emmanuel Macron by Christian Estrosi, David Lisnard, Jean Léonetti, Rudy Salles, Philippe Pradal.
The political reshuffle we are carrying with François Bayrou, experimented for a year and a half in the PACA Region, is underway, irreversibly.
Robert Injey (PCF):
For the first time in over 30 years in our country, never before have so many voters come together for a massive vote for a real democratic and social alternative.
The momentum must continue, strengthen, from the legislative elections to provide the national representation with a true force that, in its diversity, can carry the expectations of our people against the social regression embodied by Emmanuel Macron.
Xavier Garcia (PS):
We awaited this first round without illusion regarding Benoit Hamon’s chances of doing well and the verdict fell with a historically low score.
What happened this evening is also the end of a cycle that has been brewing since April 21, 2002, and the result of deep and unresolved divisions within our party.
Emmanuel Macron’s score is still a vague but deep aspiration for political reorganization and renewal of elected officials. The choice now imposed on the Socialist Party is to heed this aspiration or disappear.
Gaël Nofri (Elected Independents of Nice)
The right had a historic chance, it failed to seize it. Everyone will judge the responsibilities of each.
I will vote Macron while hoping that tomorrow, during the legislative elections, a brave and united right-wing majority will win so that the majority for the next five years is an alternative majority serving a policy in line with the expectations of the French.
Charles-Ange Ginesy (LR):
There can be no other choice but to vote against the National Front, which would represent danger and economic and institutional chaos.
To prevent Emmanuel Macron from leading the same policy as François Hollande, there is only one choice: to already start the campaign for the legislative elections so that the Parliament can positively influence the future President of the Republic by taking into account the ideas carried by the Republicans.
Hervé Cael, Parti Radical 06 (UDI)
Leading, an unprecedented candidate in our contemporary history faces a growing populist wave. We choose to vote for Emmanuel Macron and the Radical Party calls on the French to vote for him on May 7th.
We do this because, beyond the program differences that fueled the first-round debate, he defends the same principles for the Republic as the Radicals do.
Pierre-Paul LEONELLI, President of the Municipal Majority -Nice
This evening, in light of this electoral earthquake, I am sad to see my political family and the candidate representing it, François Fillon, eliminated in the first round of this 2017 presidential election.
I regret that we did not manage to bring about an effective rally around our candidate to provide the alternation that the French were awaiting.
This is the fight I have been leading all these years, which is why today, more than ever, I call for preventing the National Front, which is a dead-end for France.
