2023-09-21 19:00:09
In the Guadeloupe archipelago, three outgoing senators will try to keep the three seats that the election on Sunday September 24 puts into play: Victorin Lurel, Dominique Théophile and Victoire Jasmin. While the latter appeared, in 2017, on the list of the former overseas minister of François Hollande, this time she stands on her own two feet. “I am a woman, I have a good record, I defended my territory”argues the outgoing senator, putting forward her desire “to be a model for young Guadeloupean women”.
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But his ambition to be head of the list for the Socialist Party (PS) was shattered by the methods required by the party’s statutes, which provide for the designation of candidates by votes of local members and activists, and the exclusion of those who do not wish to submit to it. “She did not want to respect the rules, so it was normal for her to leave the PS authorities”notes without further formality Victorin Lurel, now his opponent.
The socialist is leading his campaign on a choice that he summarizes as follows: “For Mr. Macron’s policy or against Mr. Macron’s policy.” A speech which recalls the role of the Senate, mainly on the right, facing the power in place, and also targets the third outgoing senator, Dominique Théophile, affiliated with the local Guadeloupe united, united and responsible party, a movement supported and financed by the presidential party.
“Uncertainty over the outcome of the vote”
« I do not want to get into a form of parliamentary athleticism which consists of taking stock by depoliticizing the election”adds Mr. Lurel, who is banking on a strong “local opposition to Emmanuel Macron, including among major voters”and recalls the electoral successes of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen in Guadeloupe during the 2022 presidential election. But he concedes “ uncertainty over the outcome of the vote » due to the dilution of votes caused by these multiple candidacies and the risk of losing a seat.
Because Victoire Jasmin is not the only one to have seceded. In recent years, the ex-socialist (he was excluded) Jocelyn Sapotille has made multiple trips back and forth between the PS, to which he had belonged for a long time, and a claimed political independence. The president of the Association of Mayors of Guadeloupe finally, once again, chose dissent. “I call it freedom”, smiles the head of the list, also banking on his running mates to win the seat. Because, in territories like Guadeloupe, where people vote out of friendship more than out of political affinity, the list vote expresses all its force.
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