Vice-president of the Brittany region in charge of the environment, Thierry Burlot will be a candidate for the regional ones.
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Tipped for a few weeks to be a candidate, Thierry Burlot is coming out of the woods.
In charge of the green algae file in the Brittany region, the vice-president in charge of the Environment Thierry Burlot announced on Sunday on the France 3 antenna that he wanted to “create the conditions” to be a candidate without a label for the next regional ones to be held in June.
The former socialist will be notably supported by LREM, the UDI and the Modem.
“I wish the gathering as large as possible.
Certain socialists or ex-socialists could join me, certain ecologists could be partisan, declared this close to Jean-Yves Le Drian.
"I am sure of one thing, it is that today the environmental question will be at the heart of this electoral campaign", added this specialist in water quality, 61 years old.
He will be opposed to outgoing president Loïg Chesnais-Girard
Member of the socialist group at the regional council, this former territorial official is also president of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB), president of the Cercle de l'eau, and has just been re-elected as president of the Loire Bretagne basin committee. .
He said he was "particularly concerned about the themes of water and waste management".
"Macron compatible", he declared to have voted for the president in the two rounds of the presidential election of 2017, while ensuring that he wants to keep a critical eye.
He will be opposed in particular to the outgoing president, the socialist Loïg Chesnais-Girard, who had succeeded Jean-Yves Le Drian at the head of the Brittany region and is seeking a new mandate.
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