• The departmental elections take place on June 20 and 27, at the same time as the regional elections.

  • In Loire-Atlantique, the departmental council is headed by the left.

    The outgoing president, Philippe Grosvalet, does not represent himself.

It is the only department led by the left in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. But for how long ? The suspense is immense for these departmental elections in Loire-Atlantique. It must be said that the current predominantly socialist majority, acquired since 2004, is hanging by a thread, to a single canton more precisely, out of a total of 31 in this territory of 1.4 million inhabitants. As if that were not enough, the outgoing president of the departmental council, Philippe Grosvalet (PS), does not represent himself.

It is the former deputy Michel Ménard who will be the new leader of a Socialist Party united from the first round with the ecologists, but without the communists, nor La France insoumise, who are trying their luck on their own.

Their main opponent will be the union of the right and the center carried by Laurent Turquois, mayor of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire (without label).

Cantons for LREM and the FN?

The Republic in progress of Mounir Belhamiti hopes to constitute a serious alternative but it does not dream of becoming a majority since it will be absent from several cantons.

The National Assembly of its delegate Eleonore Revel will try to grab elected officials, which it does not have in the current assembly.

A dozen cantons seem particularly likely to switch.

The main responsibilities of the departmental council are social action (RSA, elderly people, disabled people, etc.), child protection, the maintenance of departmental roads, the management of secondary schools or the protection of natural areas.

The opening of the RSA to those under 25, the care of unaccompanied foreign minors, the staffing of firefighters, roads at 90 km / h, or the project to set up an Amazon logistics base, have constituted the main topics of debate in the campaign.

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Vote for the department, instructions for use

The Loire departmental council is made up of 62 departmental councilors elected for 6 years.

Voters vote in a canton and must choose a male-female pair (without mixing) who will represent them.

The two pairs who came out on top, as well as the pairs having obtained the votes of at least 12.5% ​​of the registered voters of the canton, are qualified for the second round.

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