It is an area political axiom that has by no means been denied. In Reunion, the municipal elections permit us to guess what’s at stake within the following regional election. This is much more apparent in Saint-Paul, the second largest commune on the island, with greater than 106,000 inhabitants, the place a battle of cooks is happening. For the outgoing mayor, Emmanuel Séraphin, loyal to regional president Huguette Bello (varied left, ally of La France insoumise, LFI) showing in second place on his checklist, the problem is to maintain the one giant Reunion commune within the arms of their social gathering, the Pour La Réunion social gathering (PLR). Otherwise, Huguette Bello dangers being weakened in opposition to different parts of the native left, together with her rival, Ericka Bareigts (Socialist Party, PS), and even her vice-president for the area, Patrick Lebreton.
On the correct, this municipal election revives the interior divisions, opened to broad daylight following the misplaced regional elections of 2021. Some see in it the contours of a major for these of 2028, with, on one aspect, Didier Robert, the previous president of the regional council (2010-2021), who had nonetheless introduced to surrender politics in October 2021, following his defeat and his authorized setbacks. On the opposite, Cyrille Melchior (varied proper), president of the departmental council and of the motion which intends to carry collectively the Reunion proper, Nouvel R’. Both are suspected of eager to impose their management on the correct by this significantly adopted duel on the island. Which they systematically refute.
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