Xavier Bertrand run for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy – The World

Xavier Bertrand run for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Picardy – The World

Le Monde | 02/01/2015 at 4:19 • Updated 02/01/2015 at 15:20 | By Alexandre Lemarié

The key

• Xavier Bertrand is a candidate for regional elections in December 2015 the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy region.
• There might face the president of the National Front, Marine Le Pen.
• A win could serve as the regional springboard for UMP primary in 2016, when he does not give up.

In the “Grand Rendez-Vous” i-Tele-Europe 1- World , Sunday morning, Bertrand wanted to show its total commitment to the “challenge” putting jobs at the top of its agenda. “I am personally committed, and I fully commit myself” , he said, before reaching out to IDU and Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition ( CPNT).

JUMP SES NATIONAL AMBITIONS

M. Bertrand however, indicated that “continues to be a candidate for the UMP primary 2016 ” prior to the 2017 presidential How to reconcile regional and national engagement? Xavier Bertrand intends to link “National and regional dimension passion” using the example of the former Socialist prime minister and former mayor of Lille, Mauroy.

The former labor minister is betting that a victory in the regional could serve as a springboard for his national ambitions. With a fine success in 2015 in this stronghold of the left, he would emerge strengthened from this election battle. What revive the Elyos race right where it is far behind in the polls by his rivals for the primary. Nicolas Sarkozy, Alain Juppe Francois Fillon and Bruno Le Maire

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PLAY AGAINST REMPART FN

Compete in? this region proves a strategic choice. The mayor of Saint-Quentin (Aisne) could indeed have to face it Marine Le Pen, even if the president of FN hesitate to take the risk of suffering a defeat before the 2017 presidential If she competed, Bertrand could pose as a bulwark against the far right, and weaken the boss of the National Front party, given the head of the first round of presidential elections in several polls. “Fighting Marine Le Pen would give real status to Bertrand as it would be very symbolic duel” , says a UMP tenor. The Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardie region is where the FN feeds more regional ambitions, with that of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, where Jean-Marie Le Pen will be a candidate.

Mr. Bertrand said he was ready Sunday morning to “fight the impostures” Marine Le Pen, without position on a possible Republican front to make her dam. Mr. Bertrand has developed an offensive speech on security issues. At the head of the region, it would strengthen “Rail Safety actual” by installing CCTV cameras. It also calls for a “Republican offensive” , wants to enforce the ban on the burqa, and invokes the “zero tolerance” face “enemies inside “, ” thousands “ went to wage jihad before returning: ” We have to put them out of harm’s . (…) The threat is strong and present. We are in a war to the death. It will be them or us . “

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A time approached, Martine Aubry finally abandoned occur in this region After the merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy in the framework of territorial reform. She preferred to give way to a close. The PS candidate will Saintignon Stone, Senior Vice-President of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and deputy prime Martine Aubry to the city of Lille region. He’s already taken the field since 8 September, more than a year before the election, scheduled for late 2015.

WORN UMP

Within the UMP, tenors see more favorably Xavier Bertrand application in the region, saying it is the only one able to gather the local right to the vote. For several weeks, Gerald Darmanin, North MP and Mayor of Tourcoing, had embarked on a remote in the local press to match with Marc-Philippe Daubresse, president of the North UMP MP and Mayor of Lambersart, to get the nomination to regional.

Mr. Darmanin, spokesman Nicolas Sarkozy during the campaign for the presidency of the UMP and support of the former Minister of Labour, publicly called his “godfather” policy to engage in stressing that he would leave it priority. Bertrand told La Voix du Nord that it would be his campaign manager.

Ditto for Mr. Daubresse. The president of the UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy, has also pushed the candidacy of his former minister in this region. “I wish Xavier Bertrand be our candidate for regional” , has he said Thursday, January 29, during a trip in Tourcoing (North).

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