After elections marked by a historic abstention, the presidents of the departmental councils will be appointed Thursday, the right must strengthen its majority, even if some uncertainties must still be resolved by the newly elected. The right, which had a very large majority of 70 departments against 33 for the left (with the Overseas Territories) since the 2015 elections, could win up to three more if some of its candidates are elected presidents during the election. meetings of the new departmental councils.
Uncertainties in Seine-Maritime and in Vaucluse
The greatest uncertainty concerns Seine-Maritime, a department chaired by Bertrand Bellanger, close to Edouard Philippe, who is likely to switch back to the left. It all depends on the choice of an elected centrist, Dominique Métot, ex DVG reelected on Sunday and who claims his independence, even if he voted the budgets of the last term.
Another department where the right and the left had not managed to decide on Sunday during the second round with six cantons each: Vaucluse which should however remain to the right. The pair elected in the canton of Bollène, including the mayor of the city, a former socialist, has indeed announced that he would vote for the LR candidate, Dominique Santoni.
Many sockets on the right
The Ardèche, a bastion of the left for 23 years, will switch to the right. Olivier Amrane should become the new president of the department in the hands of the left since 1998, thanks to the support of an independent pair, breaking with the outgoing majority, who announced Monday that he would support him.
The right created a surprise Sunday by winning a historic victory in Puy-de-Dôme, a bastion of the left which has known only two alternations on the right since 1945: between 1973 and 1976 then between 1992 and 1998.
It also delighted the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Finistère, both on the left for 23 years and conquered Val-de-Marne, the last stronghold of the Communist Party, which he had led since 1976, after the surprise loss of the Allier in 2015.
In Finistère, a PS departmental councilor, beaten by 5 votes in a canton of Brest, lodged an appeal with the administrative court, an initiative which, if justice proved him right, could keep the department on the left in the event of victory.
For its part, the left recovered the Charente and Côtes-d’Armor which had passed to the right in 2015.
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