A petition for "citizen primaries" inside left must convince first

The team of Angers inhabitants claiming the organization of primaries to select, inside the majority of the city council, the candidate who will face the challenger of the minority, is far from having convinced supporters. After they suggested that it would be wise, and fair, to have such primaries elections between the two candidates, in the majority left side of town council, Frédéric Béatse, present mayor, and Jean-Luc Rotureau, his challenger, they launched at mid october a petition.

Credits : http://www.facebook.com/municipales.Angers.2014

But that one has not (yet?) convinced a lot of people. About 115 persons registered their names on the website. Under the (a little bit overused and prepos-terous) title, the signatories demand the organization of "citizen primaries" (as if the official poll was not "citizen" itself) in order to give to the candidate "an "indisputable legitimacy", open critic about the present mayor who took office after the resignation of Jean-Claude Antonini, former Angers mayor, this year. 

But is such a project tuned with the present worries of Angers population recently informed about an important increase of unemployment, more than 5% in a single month (september)? Moreover, some of the signatories are, or were, or will be involved in the policital game of Angers :  among them, the senator Corinne Bouchoux, the former municipal representative Sophie Briand-Boucher who left her charge because she didn't "swallowed" the way the present mayor was choosen and (n° 76) Mr Rotureau himself. So the "citizen primaries" could be charged to smell the setttling of scores. Above all, the idea would not be considered favorably by the French socialist party Mr Béatse is an influent member.