A choice that allows both the parity diversity and renewal

This time, there is. The leaders will scroll in the prefectures from today and until February 15, to file their lists for the first round of regional elections in March. Lists which is the subject, often long and difficult negotiations, including the PS and UMP. The situation today.

Parity: few women heads of list

On all lists, course is 50 of women: since 2003, the law imposes, in effect, a strict alternation for regional elections. But to PS as in the UMP, the low number of women in top of the list shows the path to browse equity. Having left press their Presidents (except Georges Frêche), the Socialists did in show 3 as heads of regional list (Ségolène Royal in Poitou-Charentes), Marie-Guite Dufay in Franche-Comté and Hélène Mandroux in Languedoc-Roussillon and 25 as heads of departmental list. The UMP and the new Centre are better, with 6 women on 22 heads of regional list (Bernadette Malgorn in Brittany, Valérie Pécresse in Ile-de-France, Brigitte Barèges in Midi-Pyrénées, Caroline Cayeux in Picardy, Françoise Grossetête in Rhône-Alpes and Valérie Létard in the Calais). In addition, 26 women in the majority lead a departmental list, including Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet in Essonne, Chantal Jouanno in Paris and the MP Arlette Grosskost in Haut-Rhin. The duels between women occur in 7 departments of metropolitan France, including 2 at the top: between sarkozyste Bernadette Malgorn and MP PS Marylise Lebranchu in Finistère, and above all, between Secretary of State Chantal Jouanno and Anne Hidalgo, first Deputy of Bertrand Delanoë in Paris.

Diversity: progress

Give visibility to visible minorities has become a political issue for the political parties, anxious to prove that they are in the image of the company. Unlike the Modem, or PS or UMP does to are certainly chosen a representative of the diversity to run a region, but they have made efforts. The Solferino Street especially, who chose "150 to 200" candidates of diversity, including "80 to eligible places." In 2004, they were only 30. The party presents including 2 heads of departmental list from "minorities": Ali Soumaré, former spokesman of the family in the riots of Villiers-le-Bel in 2007, in the Val - d Oise and Abdelhak Kachouri in Seine-Saint-Denis. Others are in second place as Assya Guettaf in Northern or counselors regional outgoing Safia Otokore (in Côte-d'Or) and Farida Boudaoud (in the Rhone). The UMP, said designated "100" candidates of diversity, including "27 are eligible place", in the first third of the lists (9 for the Ile-de-France only). "A true progress." "It is 10 times more than in 2004," notes Dominique Paillé, spokesman of the party responsible for diversity. The majority has only a single departmental list: Secretary of State Nora Berra in the Rhône. Five others are in second place, one of Rama Yade (Hauts-de-Seine), Patrick Karam (Paris) and a young student, Afafe Rafiki, in the Vosges mountains. A choice that allows both the parity, diversity and renewal.

Renewal: a notable effort

This is where the developments are the most important. In view of the number of outgoing Socialist regional advisers, the exercise was more difficult for the Solferino Street for the presidential majority. In metropolis, the PS has no head of the new list (same Jacques Bigot, who lost in 2004, represents in Alsace) and three quarters of its heads of departmental list are outgoing regional advisers. The renewal note within lists: "35 to 60 of change according to the regions for the eligible spaces", says Christophe Borgel, national Secretary of the party in the elections. "In Seine-Saint-Denis, he says, a single outgoing elected has been renewed;" all others have passed hand. "The majority is better. It boasts a turnover rate of "65 on eligible positions", on the basis of the outcome of 2004. For example, Raymond Couderc, in Languedoc-Roussillon, renewed that 2 of the 16 outgoing regional advisers. In total, only 3 heads of list 2004 UMP again seek the Presidency of the region: Xavier Darcos in Aquitaine, Raymond Archer in the Limousin and Camille de Rocca - Serra in Corsica. To which is added Valérie Létard in Calais, in the meantime passed to the UDF in the new Centre. As heads of departmental list, the majority was sent to the battle number of elected officials with a national weight: 15 members of the Government, 25 members, 5 senators and 6 MEPs. Conversely, the PS is focused on local elected representatives and the first Secretaries of Federation. In metropolis, barely 10 deputies and 4 Senators to serve as locomotives.

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