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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aujourd’hui, c’est vendredi, et comme tous les jeudis, c’est \u00e9lections. La r\u00e9gion Centre, vaste, h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8ne a, c’est un comble, parfois \u00e9t\u00e9 anim\u00e9e de tendances centrifuges, Andr\u00e9 Laignel (\u00able nain sectaire\u00bb, longtemps patron socialiste de l’Indre) demandant ainsi un temps le rattachement au Limousin. L’ouest (le Perche) regarde vers la Sarthe ou la Normandie. <\/p>\n
Aussi, la r\u00e9gion illustre certains traits socio-politiques rep\u00e9rables chez ses voisines, voire sur le territoire dans son ensemble: <\/p>\n
– le conservatisme des paysans riches de la Beauce, jusqu’aux campagnes d’Orl\u00e9ans et Blois, et qu’on retrouve dans l’Essonne ou la Seine-et-Marne,<\/p>\n
– par contraste, l’ancrage traditionnel \u00e0 gauche des campagnes qui vont de la S\u00e9gol\u00e9nie jusqu’\u00e0 la Ni\u00e8vre et au Limousin. Le Cher est m\u00eame, avec l’Allier voisin, historiquement un des premiers et aujourd’hui derniers bastions du PCF: 75% de vote sur la motion Cachin d\u00e8s le congr\u00e8s de Tours, pacifisme dans des usines d’armement tr\u00e8s syndiqu\u00e9es, d\u00e9tention par le Parti de la mairie de Bourges (et d’autres villes de moindre importance), depuis enlev\u00e9e par Lepeltier, de 1977 \u00e0 1995. On notera la force, encore aujourd’hui, du PC dans la gauche r\u00e9gionale. <\/p>\n
– le poids des choix urbanistiques. Ainsi, Tours est une ville mod\u00e9r\u00e9e, de consensus, marqu\u00e9e par le r\u00e8gne sans partage et les choix d’am\u00e9nagement judicieux de Jean Royer, \u00e9galement ic\u00f4ne des petits commer\u00e7ants et des anti-porno. Elle est pass\u00e9e au PS Jean Germain en 1995. RDDV en est le d\u00e9put\u00e9 mais n’a jamais r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 conqu\u00e9rir la ville qui, paradoxalement, m’a sembl\u00e9 super-p\u00e9d\u00e9e (4 bars et un h\u00f4tel \u00ab\u00e0 th\u00e8me\u00bb pour 50 000 habitants). A l’inverse, Orl\u00e9ans ou Blois sont des villes \u00e9clat\u00e9es, litt\u00e9ralement divis\u00e9es, ou chaque bord politique joue un quartier contre l’autre, ce qui a fini par co\u00fbter ses places \u00e0 Jack Lang, et am\u00e8ne l’alternance r\u00e9guli\u00e8re \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans. A Dreux, cette m\u00eame dissolution du lien urbain, coupl\u00e9e au fonctionnement comme sinistre hyper-banlieue de Paris, a permis l’apparition en avant-premi\u00e8re du FN, avec feus les \u00e9poux Stirbois.<\/p>\n
Parmi les stars locales, on a aussi compt\u00e9 Michel \u00abentonnoir\u00bb Debr\u00e9 (et bri\u00e9vement son fils Bernard, depuis parachut\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris 16e), maire d’Amboise (mais d\u00e9put\u00e9 de la R\u00e9union). Merci de ne pas me rappeler que mon grand’p\u00e8re pense que Michel Sapin s’appelle Tannenbaum avec un geste significatif sur le nez. Chacun porte sa croix, si j’ose dire.
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\nToday, it’s Friday, and like every Thursday, it’s election-day. The Centre region is large, heterogeneous. With an ironical twist, it was sometime busy with centrifugal trends: Andr\u00e9 Laignel (former Socialist boss of the d\u00e9partement of Indre) once called for joining the Limousin region. The western part (le Perche) looks toward Sarthe and Normandy. <\/p>\n
Thus, the region illustrates some socio-political traits relevant in its neighbours, or even the country as a whole:<\/p>\n
– conservatism of richer peasants in the Beauce (north of the region), down to the countryside around Orleans and Blois, is also to be found in outer Essonne or Seine-et-Marne,<\/p>\n
– in a contrasted fashion, the traditional left-leaning of country between Segol\u00e8ne’s Poitou, to Ni\u00e8vre and Limousin. Cher (with neighbouring Allier) is even one of the historical strongholds and last retranchments of the Communist Party: 75% of votes for Cachin’s motion in Tours congress of 1920, pacifism in heavily unionised arms factories, a communist mayor in Bourges from 1977-1995, since outseated by Lepeltier. Also of interest if the PCF’s strengh within the region’s left.<\/p>\n
– the weigh of urbanistic choices. Hence, Tours is a moderate, consensual city. It still bears the mark of the unshared power and judicious planning choices of Jean Royer, also an icon among shopkeepers and anti-porn campaigners. It’s had a Socialist townhall since 1995, with mayor Jean Germain. Renaud Donnedieu de Vabre is the local MP, but he has failed to be elected mayor, even though it seemed to me to be a hardcore-gay city (4 bars and a hotel for 50,000 inhabitants). Conversely, Orl\u00e9ans and Blois are fragmented, even divided cities. There, each political side plays a neighbourhood against another, which eventually costed its seat to Jack Lang and has caused many changeovers in Orl\u00e9ans. In Dreux, the same dissolution of social ties, and the functioning as a sinister hyper-suburb of Paris, allowed for the early rise of FN and the late Stirbois pair. <\/p>\n
Among local stars was also Michel \u00ab\u00a0wacko\u00a0\u00bb Debr\u00e9 (and for a short time his son Bernard Debr\u00e9, since then dispatched in the 16th arrondissement of Paris), the mayor of Amboise (but MP from La R\u00e9union). Thanks for not mentionning that my grandfather thinks Michel Sapin’s true name is Tannenbaum, with a meaningful nose gesture. We all bear our cross, if I may say so. <\/p>\n
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