How does the Relay-Wauquiez vote go? – release

After several months of electoral campaignthe members of the Les Républicains Party (LR) elect their new president this Saturday and Sunday. Membership members must decide between Laurent Wauquiez, president of the parliamentary group called « the republican right » in the National Assembly, and Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior and former boss of the Senate Senaters in the Senate.

Usually, the president of the late UMP is elected for five years. But that was without counting Eric Ciotti, his rallying at the national rally during the post-Dissolution legislative campaign and his refusal to abandon the presidency, even hindering himself in his office for hours. The Niçois had finally left the party and its function last Septemberrequiring the summons of a new ballot.

However, between this disappointment and the Valérie Pécresse score in the presidential elections of 2022, the worst in the history of the Fifth Republic for this political family (4.78 % of the votes), the party only had 44,000 members counted by the party at the start of the year. Finally, thanks to intense membership campaign in a campaign context for this congress, 121,617 activists will, according to the party leader, take part in election this weekend.

For this election, voters will vote electronically. Mostly « from a distance » From a computer, tablet or phone, and possibly « On site » From a computer made available in a local polling station. « The secrecy of the vote will be ensured throughout the electoral process, ensuring that the identity of the voter cannot be related to the expression of his vote »,, provides the party’s electoral guide.

This document also details the security of the vote, guaranteed by a double identification system. Each member will receive shortly before opening the ballot an access code by email, and a password by SMS. Activists must also be in possession of their member number received beforehand. Binding measures to protect against new controversies, even a fratricidal war like the right has known. During the December 2021 primary which had appointed Valérie Pécresse as candidate of the presidential party, « Fraudulent maneuvers aimed at swelling the electoral body » had been revealed a posteriori by Release. This political family is also marked by The conflict between François Fillon and Jean-François Copé for the presidency of the UMP in November 2012.

This Sunday, May 18, the counting of the ballot will take place « As soon as the vote is closed »at 6 p.m. The proclamation of results by the « High Authority », made up of eight members (lawyers, deputies, former deputies), will intervene shortly after. If « No candidate has obtained the absolute majority of the votes cast in the first round »so here in case of strict equality between Wauquiez and Retailleau, a second round will be organized on May 24 and 25.

If, during these electoral operations, the High Authority « Notes the existence of irregularities » – by his own controls or after complaint of a candidate or a voter –,, it can « Either maintain the said operations, or (…) pronounce their total or partial cancellation ».