Primary UMP political party office modifies the charter … – Europe1

OFFICIAL – The Political Bureau of the UMP formalized, Tuesday, April 7 in the evening, the conditions of the 2016 primary for the 2017 presidential election, by bringing significant changes compared Charter adopted by the working group chaired by MP close to Bruno Le Maire, Thierry Solère. Under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, including BP lowered the parliamentary sponsorship threshold required to submit an application and increased the number of polling stations that will be installed for this poll.

The primary will take place over two rounds if necessary, on 20 and 27 November 2016

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# from 25 to 20 sponsorships parliamentarians

It was a claim of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and Xavier Bertrand, in particular. If the first reserves the right to APPLY, the second is already in the race for the primary and both considered too high the threshold of 25 parliamentary sponsorship necessary for any application. Designed by the Working Group as a sign of openness to the center while avoiding deemed frivolous candidates, this threshold was finally lowered to 20 .

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In all, it is the support of 250 elected at least 30 departments, 2500 members to date of contribution that will require ambitious.

# From 8,000 to 10,000 polling stations

Still marked by the hilarious election to the presidency in 2012, which gave rise to the war Copé- Fillon, the party of the Rue Vaugirard chose paper voting to the primary. 8,000 polling stations were initially planned ; there will finally 10000 , spread throughout the country – a request clan Juppé. Half of these offices will be automatically distributed based electoral districts; 5,000 more will be provided where the right (and Nicolas Sarkozy) has achieved its best scores in 2012

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Each voter will perform two euros (on each of the two towers planned) and must sign the following statement: “I adhere to the values ​​of right and center I commit myself for. alternation and the recovery of France “. While sympathetic to the right and center able to vote if they have 18 years in 2017. While the centrist parties (injectable and modem) were to decide to nominate candidates, the UMP plans to “talk with [them]” to set rules that would be their own.

# Resignation of office of all candidates

Wishing “remove any ambiguity” according to his entourage, Nicolas Sarkozy proposed that “any member of management who will be candidate for the primary will have to resign” and the successful candidate will also be the one who “will lead the party in the 2017 presidential election.” This will be the commission of the statutes, those responsible for developing the new party (refounded at the conference from May 30) to decide. This committee meets next Tuesday.

According to the statutes of the UMP in 2013, referred to by Nicolas Sarkozy, any member of the management running as a candidate must resign “no later than fifteen days” before the date for applications. The winner of the primary will provide a temporary party leader until the presidential 2017.

# Date for applications

Candidates will until September 9, 2016 to declare. The list will be made public no later than September 21, the High Authority (chaired by lawyer Anne Levade) responsible for the proper place of the whole operation.