Departmental elections 2015 – Tulle: “It’s going to blow serious!” – The Point

In the country until the end, the mayor of Tulle and the departmental candidate Bernard Combes learned everything from his mentor and friend also. “With Francois Hollande, I realized that we should let go until the voting booth curtain is closed” blows one that followed the president at the Elysee, in 2012 appointed adviser for relationships with elected officials.

On the eve of the first round, while the left is underdog in Corrèze, Combes nothing is bent. Too many parameters – the redrawing of districts, the new method of voting, the FN spectrum, the division of the left, the lack of dynamic right – make the ballot “unreadable” here in the stronghold of the president.

Macron, “he’s handsome, he’s young, he’s rich. It helps!”

Francois Hollande has also a very close eye on this department he directed from 2008 to 2012 before handing over to the one who was his deputy finance, G. Bonnet (candidate to succeed). So he bombed Bernard Combes SMS Thursday night while Manuel Valls was meeting in the hall of the Auzelou, before some 600 activists need re-engage. “Everyone was excited about his speech. He has given punch, courage, he transmitted his energy and faith in the values ​​of the Republic” wants to believe the member Sophie top corner.

Bernard Combes, he clings to the positive feedback from Tullistes after the performance of Emmanuel Macron last Thursday on France 2, they enjoyed “the simplicity of speech, responsiveness, clarity.” “He’s handsome, he’s young, he’s rich. Even on the left, it helps!” fun Combes.

All are aware, however, that the party is going to be very tight face a united right and a mordant UMP candidate, which ignites with us after the coming of the Prime Minister: “Valls This is Captain Miller comes Saving Private Ryan! It’s pathetic. ” However, Pascal Coste does not boast too soon and also provides: “It is useless to make small calculations, the ballot is too complicated.”

Holland, “the ears will heat him”

On the market Tulle, situated along the river Corrèze, is abstention trying the more voters. “Here, everyone likes to Holland,” begins Alain beekeeper. Behind its honey booth, he admits that the president is “a good living, no prude”: “The ladies jumped to his neck when they see it, offer her little hearts,” he says. But it is to temper once, “I believe that this time, the ears will heat it.”

Alain futures and Marianne, installed a few meters away, will not vote. City of François Hollande or not, it does not change anything for them. “You’d have affection for someone who takes away your wallet, you?” enrage the first who had to give up his job as a truck driver, suffocated by taxes, to convert to the sale of fruits and vegetables.

In front, Corinne, caterer that sells sauerkraut, turkey meatballs or aligot, prognostic scores ever seen for the FN in this corner of Corrèze very marked by the history of the Second World War and the tragic episode of the 99 hanged Tulle. She does not beat around the bush: “It’s going to blow serious, people are fed up.”