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National Elections 2023: When Will There be a Real Campaign?

Given the drama of national and municipal elections, 2023 promises to be a thrilling political year. Provided there
are candidates... by Milena Radoman

Back in summer we started to smell an Parliament and will surely not waste time in will or will not be part of the 2023-2028
electoral campaign in the air... Monaco-Matin presenting this list, unless there is a major adventure”. But for the moment, there is
reported that Stéphane Valeri said he was surprise. no question of setting up an alternative
ready to present a Union Nationale list at the Today the question is whether there will be list. We will see if other political figures,
beginning of October to run for a fifth term an opposition. The current electoral law, former elected officials or other popular
(if he didn’t go back to the private sector); decreed at each ballot, accentuates the personalities, will come out of the woodwork
his (ex) opponents Jean-louis Grinda and majority and leaves only a few seats to the by the end of 2022. If this occurs, it would
Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo then followed suit opposition (3 seats for 40% of the votes). be the first time that situation of this kind
to announce that they were with him, thus Who will want to go into battle and unearth has occurred since the new electoral law
continuing the coalition strategy started 24 motivated political candidates, facing a institutionalizing a pluralist parliament,
during the Covid crisis. list which brings together several different and Monaco’s membership of the Council
The cards were reshuffled with the political opinions in Monaco and destroys the of Europe. Remember that Monaco citizens
resignation of Primo!’s leader, the President conservative/progressive divide? Especially will be called to the polls on 5 February 2023
of the National Council. Even though there in a political landscape where there hasn’t for the national elections and on 19 March
is no doubt about the head of the list, who been partisan life for years... 2023 for the municipal elections. Georges
comes from the outgoing parliament: the Daniel Boeri slammed the door on the Marsan, who has been Mayor of Monaco
new President of the National Council majority party and revived the Think Tank since 2003, should soon put an end to the
Brigitte Boccone-Pagès, Stéphane Valeri’s of “Non-registered Monegasques” (NIM), suspense over a new candidacy... In 2019,
loyal lieutenant certainly aims to stay the challenging the ethics of Primo !’s methods his Municipal Evolution party was the only
first female President of the Monegasque to “select those, among the elected, who one in the running, and it won all seats.

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