Claude Térouinard, former president of the Eure-et-Loir Departmental Council, had sponsored the mayor of Chartres, Jean-Pierre Gorges, candidate for the 2017 presidential election. He had considered, this time, to give his signature to Jean Lassalle, president of the Résistons! movement, but finally decided, “out of civic concern”, to respond to François Bayrou’s initiative.
“The president of the MoDem had the good idea to create a reserve of sponsorships for the candidates threatened with being prevented from taking part in the ballot, in particular Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, affirms Claude Térouinard. These signatures are not support for a political current and a candidate. They will make it possible to avoid a serious attack on democracy and allow people, with whom we deeply disagree, to present themselves. »
Should the presidential sponsorship system be reformed: what politicians in Eure-et-Loir think?
The current departmental councilor (LR) of the canton of Brou stresses that an elected official is “not a machine for signing papers” nor “a disembodied person”. “A chosen one has a name, a family. It is not easy to decide to sponsor a candidate who flouts the values of the Republic, but we can hope that he is a candidate so that there is a competition and a confrontation of ideas. This scholarship of sponsorships makes this choice in our place and does not deprive the democratic debate of a legitimate candidacy. »
These elected officials from Eure-et-Loir who hesitate to sponsor a candidate for the presidential election
“Historical Decisions. »
Prime Minister Jean Castex pledged on Tuesday to open a faculty of medicine in Orléans and to train 200 additional students in the Centre-Val de Loire region. “These are two completely historic decisions and a strong political act”, welcomes Philippe Vigier (MoDem and related democrats), deputy of Châteaudun and regional councilor, who was part of the delegation of elected officials received at Matignon.
“In all regions of France, there are at least two medical schools. We cannot be the most medically deserted region of France, have only one medical school and therefore have insufficient training capacity. »
The announcement of a medical school in Orleans puts all regional politicians in agreement
Philippe Vigier describes this meeting as “decisive” and admits to having been surprised to read, in our Wednesday edition, that these announcements did not convince Julien Cottet, president of the council of the Order of doctors of Eure-et-Loir . “All the elected officials in the region have welcomed the Prime Minister’s decisions, everyone is in unison and he is the only one to think that this is bad news and demagoguery. I let it be said, but I wonder if it is the president of the council of the Order of doctors of Eure-et-Loir or the support of the candidate LR in the presidential election Valérie Pécresse (Julien Cottet is co-president of the Valérie Pécresse’s support committee in Eure-et-Loir, editor’s note) who spoke! », adds Philippe Vigier.
Chilean support.
The Regards d’ailleurs festival in Dreux is dedicated this year to Chilean cinema. The nineteenth edition will attract thousands of spectators. But there will be one, at a distance, a little unexpected: it is the new President of Chile. Gabriel Boric was elected on December 19, 2021 and he sent his encouragement to the organizers of the Dreux festival. It must be said that this month of the festival makes Dreux the city which will devote the most time and the most space, in this year 2022, to Chilean cinema, all over the world.
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First in the region.
The C’Chartres Football of coach Jean-Pierre Papin is still chasing an accession to National, the third French division. This is the main objective of the club, born in 2018 from the merger between FC Chartres and Chartres Horizon.
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premium Four Chartres clubs in ambush to access the upper echelon
While waiting to achieve this, the CCF can boast of still being number one in the Centre-Val de Loire region in terms of the number of licensees. As of February 15, he had 938 and can hope to beat his record by the end of the season (965 in 2018-2019). Note that another Eurelian club is in the regional Top 10: CS Mainvilliers, 9th with 532 members.
Enlightenment stamps.
After the success encountered in 2018, La Poste published, on February 14, a new stamp collector dedicated to Chartres en lumière, in partnership with the City of Chartres. This print, which brings together eight stamps of illuminated monuments, is on sale in the main post offices and professional areas of Eure-et-Loir, but also available from postmen in the region on request. It will be officially presented on April 26, on the occasion of the launch of the 19th edition of Chartres en lumière.
Julien Cottet in the USA.
Julien Cottet, allergist in Chartres and president of the departmental council of the Eure-et-Loir Order of Physicians, flew to the United States on Thursday. The Chartres doctor is the only French representative of his specialty to participate in the annual congress of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI), which is held until See you tomorrow in Phoenix, Arizona.
This meeting brings together experts from many countries around the latest advances in the knowledge of allergies.
“Field debate. »
The Eurelian supporters of Valérie Pécresse, LR candidate in the presidential election, occupied the field on Thursday in Lèves and Saint-Piat (see our Friday edition). What did not fail to point out, in Saint-Piat, Ladislas Vergne, candidate invested by LR in the legislative elections in the constituency of Chartres: “We are the only party to organize this kind of meeting: to meet the Euréliens and to give concrete answers. The other parties, they flee the field debate. »
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In Lèves, Charles Consigny hopes that Valérie Pécresse will be “the first woman at the Élysée”
Tourissima.
After two years of hibernation, tourism is picking up again. The major tourism fair in Lille (Nord), Tourissima, opened its doors on Friday. Philippe Rossat, director of the Chartres Métropole tourist office, Anne-Marie Nouar, the communication manager, and Isabelle Mesnard, the president, would not have missed this meeting for anything in the world.
They rented a 20 m2 stand to sell the Chartres destination, alongside two people from the City of Chartres and three members of the hotel club. “It is essential to be present at Tourissima in Lille to sell the Chartres destination and launch the season”, explains Isabelle Mesnard. But also enjoy the sweetness of life in the North and a few beers until tonight!
Ukraine.
Thursday evening, Quentin Guillemain, opposition municipal councilor in Chartres (Chartres Écologie), wanted to speak, at the start of the municipal council, to discuss the Ukrainian crisis: “I would like to make an introductory statement in support of the Ukrainian people. »
But he was immediately stopped by the mayor, Jean-Pierre Gorges. “No, no, sir. You’re not doing this here for a simple thing. There is a presidential election. There are candidates who have taken different positions. So that (the city council, editor’s note) cannot be a platform for that. Anyone could ask for the floor to answer you. And we organize a debate? “It’s not a platform,” said Quentin Guillemain.
More than 200 Eurelians mobilized to demand an end to the war in Ukraine
In the text sent to the press and which he wanted to read to the council, he proposed to discuss how to “propose to the Chartres to show our solidarity with the Ukrainian people”. The opposition councilor was moved by it on social networks.
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The story of a photo.
The photo, taken by Robert Capa on August 16, 1944 in the streets of Chartres, went around the world. Simone Touseau, shaved and holding a baby in her arms, becomes the face of French collaboration with the German enemy. This photo is at the center of a new podcast from France Culture radio, which has just published six fifteen-minute episodes on the famous Tondue de Chartres. The investigation of France Culture, through the lighting of many historians, paints the portrait of Simone Touseau, of her family and contextualizes the photograph in an attempt to remove the mysteries which hover around it.
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Economy.
The tweet in which the mayor of Lèves, Rémi Martial, is annoyed, of “the economic lack of culture of the French” (our edition of February 13) the fact, to sum up, of the teaching delivered “for forty years in economic and social science courses” had the gift of “moving if not irritating” the regional office of the Association of professors of economics and social sciences.
He recalls: “The teaching of economic and social sciences is only compulsory in general and technological second class and only since the start of the 2019 school year, at the rate of 90 minutes per week… A straw… Apart from that, teaching is absent from the compulsory lessons of the Terminale cycle of the general high school, the technological high school, the vocational high school, apprenticeship, college…”
And to continue: “Rémi Martial, who presents himself in his Twitter biography as “eco teacher, local elected official and father of a family”, would undoubtedly have had better account to live up to his demands. Indeed, the eco teacher could have remembered that intellectual rigor requires relying on statistical and verifiable data, at least that’s what we teach our students from the second. »
LREM.
Emmanuel Macron is still not, officially, a candidate for his own succession for this presidential election, scheduled for April. Still, LREM is organizing and structuring itself for a campaign. A new stage, a handful of deputies from the presidential party have just been appointed to be “relays” with civil society.
In this “short list”, we find a Eurelian, in the person of Guillaume Kasbarian. The Member of Parliament for the Chartres constituency is particularly responsible for discussing the defense and development of industry in France.
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Festivals.
Rather confidential until now, the Perchella festival should take on another dimension this year, since the program is spread over a whole weekend and the ticket office should visibly open up to a wider audience.
The 5th edition of this musical meeting, initiated by a group of friends, will take place from July 1 to 3, at the Mondoucet estate, in Souancé-au-Perche, with the support of the Departmental Council of Eure-et-Loir . Land of current music, the Perche will host, eight days later, the 15th edition of the Green Tea Festival, in Nogent-le-Rotrou, supported by the association La Théière.
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