Soon or later, the right side will have to put back the pieces together

After he was dismissed, a few days ago, of his responsability as the spokesperson of the minority group at Angers city council by his former colleagues, Laurent Gérault has finally been excluded of the opposition. The reason would have nothing to see with policy, they say. What would be at stake is his character. The local Ouest-France reported the critics against Mr Gérault but all of them are connected with its part in the political field like "dominance on the communication of the group" while he was its spokesperson.

So such a measure could become an harassment and could backlash against its initiators. More recently, Mr Gérault got some support from former colleages in the Angers town council or present regional councillors who considered his exclusion was an humiliation. The interview Laurent Gérault gave recently saying he was more and more hailed by Angers inhabitants has apparently triggered an appeal he had not foreseen. If Mr Gérault will be completely isolated , but not mute, in Angers city council, the members of the minority group will have to find out a new spokesperson but, above all, to gather the more and more necessary supports as we go along with the municipal campaign of 2014. 

The right side of Maine-et-Loire, already weakened by a national divided leadership, looks more and more torn apart between the far right Front national and the two centres Modem and the new Udi. Its leader, Christophe Béchu, if he wants to win the next Angers municipal ballot will have to get the support of a large part of the right, center included. So Laurent Gérault's recent eviction could be counterproductive in the future.