County: An expected test for Holland and Valls – BBC

This is the first electoral test of executive couple since the appointment of Manuel Valls at Matignon, there one year. A moment of truth that looks painful. In addition to result in possible losses in their respective strongholds – Corrèze and the Essonne – PS risks losing half of councils it held, according to the predictions of the Rue de Solferino. Or, nearly three years after the start of five years, the end of the departmental socialism after the death of municipal socialism in March 2014. One of President strategists has a word to describe what awaits the left part to the battle disorganized: seppuku. Or ritual suicide by disembowelment samurai. “They looked guts out …” sighs that close to the president. The two heads of the executive shared the roles in the campaign. François Hollande increased travel to tout economic simmer. Valls traveled the country by dramatizing the danger FN, to try to mobilize voters on the left. “It’s like Napoleon and Marshal Ney, smiles a minister. Valls has enabled Holland to protect and prepare the future. “