What will be the profile of the president of the executive council of the CTM on June 27? A brief dive into our recent past might help us find the answer.
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The law requires that whoever leads the list that won the elections becomes head of the body responsible for administering the community. Beyond this legal and political principle, it remains to be seen what type of personality will access the presidential office of Plateau Roy, in Cluny.
Will he be a professional in politics or a novice in this field? Will he be an entrepreneur or a civil servant? Will the future winner have long years of elected representative experience to his credit or not? Insofar as our only certainty is that these elections are taking place under the empire of uncertainty, we are entitled to question ourselves.
A very diverse panel
If only because the panel of heads of lists is very diverse. Of the fourteen personalities, eight are civil servants or similar and six business leaders. We also have eight candidates chosen by political staffs and six others without any affiliation.
Another angle of vision reveals that local or national elected representatives only represent half of these fourteen leaders. A proportion never reached for this type of election. A quick glance in the rear-view mirror, going back to the beginnings of the Fifth Republic, in 1958, is very instructive.
The General Council, then the Regional Council since 1983, have always been chaired by elected officials who already had some experience. In addition, several of them were the main leaders of their political formation.
Tenors at the head of our communities
The General Council has followed one another over the past sixty years: Tertulien Robinel, François Duval, Émile Maurice, Claude Lise and Josette Manin. When they took on this role, they and she were well established in their commune – respectively in Carbet, in François, in Saint-Joseph, in Fort-de-France, in Lamentin.
Same analysis for the successive presidents of the Regional Council. Aimé Césaire in 1983, Camille Darsières in 1986, Emile Capgras in 1992, Alfred Marie-Jeanne in 1998 and Serge Letchimy in 2010 were previously or at the same time mayor, or deputy mayor, or deputy.
Conclusion: since 1958, all the presidents of the general council and of the regional council had a strong civic and political experience. And all of them have had or continue to have a long political career.
This quick analysis brings us to a question: will it be the same in 2021, so that a certain political continuity is ensured? Subsidiary question: and if these elections were those of rupture?
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