UDF, through its regional leader Rudy Salles, has outlined its “battle plan” for the upcoming electoral milestones.
Gathering UDF regional leaders in a hotel near the port of Nice, Rudy Salles delivered a speech that was quite surprising. He first extensively and repeatedly reviewed recent polls giving his champion 14% of the vote. Surprising! The deputy of the third district had accustomed us to taking the analyses of institutes with a grain of salt. “It is not the weather vane that moves; it is the wind that shifts,” Edgar Faure used to say.
However, the most explosive information was less explicit. Indeed, Rudy Salles relayed the strategy decided by the president of the UDF: to appoint as many campaign managers as there are cantons in each region. In the case of Alpes Maritimes, there will therefore be 52. These 52 managers aim to convince locally, of course, but especially to “relay information back to the campaign team as quickly as possible” in order to make adjustments if necessary.
Isn’t this what we call participatory democracy? We can therefore affirm, François Bayrou is today a real “outsider” in the race to the Elysée: like all others, he borrows ideas from the neighbor.
