Jean Noël Guérini in 2011. -

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  • At 69 years old and facing an imminent trial for illegal taking of interests, Jean-Noël Guérini is a candidate for his re-election to the senatorial in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

  • For political scientist Virgnie Marin, "he certainly still has a lot of obligations here and there, he hopes to play the card of what remains of his long-standing territorial anchoring". 

“I love you and I love him too.

The former socialist minister Marie-Arlette Carlotti is currently receiving sorry appeals from the electorate for the next senatorial elections in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

The cause of their torment?

The former strongman of PS 13, Jean-Noël Guérini, in media silence but in an active campaign to be re-elected (a third time) as senator.

"In some places, it walks a little on our border," continues the one who also aims for a seat in the Senate, on the list of the union of the left.

There are mayors who have been close to the Socialist Party in the past and continue to support it.

I don't judge them, I understand the links of the past, the affect.

But Jean-Noël is a mirror application, we are an application for the future.

»To hear his rival, Jean-Noël Guérini« is struggling to save his post ».

"It's a fighter," she slices.

"Last blow of revenge"

The department, he knows it inside out, having traveled and managed it many times during his presidency of the General Council, from 1999 to 2015. “He certainly still has a lot of obligations here and there, he hopes to play the map of what remains of its long-standing territorial roots, ”observes Virginie Martin, political scientist and professor at Kedge Business School.

“He's a bit of a politician who has been the boss of everything and decides to play his last revenge.

A way both of saying "I still exist" and also, at 69, to secure a retirement in diamond, "she continues, referring to the emoluments of parliamentarians.

Can Jean-Noël Guérini succeed in his bet, in this ballot which is played by secret ballot?

To secure a seat, he would need to win 440 votes from the 3,500 grand electors of Bouches-du-Rhône.

And even more if he wants to repeat the score of 2014, with three elected on his list, which seems difficult to date.

“What will be his existence, even if he succeeds in his bet ?, also asks Virginie Martin.

In terms of image, it's a plaster on the leg to have a Guerini in a group.

"However, recalls the political scientist, the stake of these senatorial ones lies precisely in the dynamics of groups:" Today, the Senate is the only national place of opposition to the executive, the only counter-power to the macronie dominant.

“Hence the importance of strong groups to influence the political spectrum.

"He is isolated"

Until now a member of the very disparate group (the “European Democratic and Social Rally”), could the outgoing senator be macron-compatible?

The question amuses Jean-Pierre Serrus, mayor of La Roque d'Anthéron, who carries the Renaissance 13 union list of the presidential majority: "This is not my subject," he says.

We want to have in the Senate a group of centrist inspiration, we want to break with the systematic posture of confrontation of many elected officials with the State, Europe, and represent the territories, the municipalities.

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To the voters tempted by the Guérini vote, Marie-Arlette Carlotti does not say anything else.

“They need real networks in the Senate.

We are in groups that will weigh.

He is isolated, ”she says.

Result in the polls on September 27.

Whatever they are, Jean-Noël Guérini will in any case be brought back to the news with his trial, expected soon before the Marseille Criminal Court, for illegal taking of interests.

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