After the appointment of Michel Barnier, in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, the tip of an extended wait | EUROtoday

On this Thursday, September 5, the market sq. of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (Loire-Atlantique) has regained its tranquility and anonymity. The tumult brought about two and a half months in the past by Gabriel Attal, who had come there to assist his minister Sarah El Haïry, then MP for the constituency and candidate for re-election, is already a very long time in the past. In this peaceable metropolis of 20,000 inhabitants, the stopover of the long run former prime minister continues to be remembered, even when his reminiscence is fading after seven weeks of presidency emptiness, punctuated by “consultations” and false leads. A wait that has grow to be resignation and whose finish nobody noticed till the epilogue of Michel Barnier's appointment to Matignon.

Here, the parade of putative candidates, from each the left and the fitting (Bernard Cazeneuve, Xavier Bertrand, Lucie Castets, Thierry Beaudet…) and the saga of 51 days spent and not using a authorities has hardly excited anybody. Worse, it has drained and irritated.

During these lengthy weeks of political farce, which appeared interminable after rushed legislative elections that noticed the left-wing coalition of the New Popular Front come out on prime within the constituency as in the remainder of the nation, Aline, who didn’t want to give her final identify, most popular to go climbing. Until the soles of her sneakers got here unstuck. Leaving the shoemaker's store, the 57-year-old assistant to college students with disabilities charged Emmanuel Macron, carried away by chilly anger. “I am more than upset and disappointed: I can't stand the sight of him anymore.” “If we dissolve, we must accept the risk of cohabitation,” slice the one which had however been “seduced” in 2017 earlier than being cooled by the administration of the Covid-19 disaster and the reform of the “clash of knowledge”. The head of state just isn’t the one one guilty. More broadly, Aline deplores a summer season throughout which the political events haven’t ceased “to talk about calculation and strategy to get votes”. Is she feeling disgusted by this vote? Aline abstained from the final vote, however she guarantees that “for the presidential election, [elle ira] always vote ».

In La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Aline is a novel case: the city has little abstentionism. Three out of 4 registered voters voted to elect their MP, in comparison with two thirds in the remainder of France. In this beautiful city made up of homes with slate roofs, typical of the north of the Loire, folks have voted socialist since 1989. Over-mobilization of voters is common, bolstered this yr by the candidacy of the PS mayor, Fabrice Roussel, who succeeded in his guess: beating the outgoing MP and minister Sarah El Haïry.

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