Primary election

A primary election makes it possible a Parti to indicate its Candidat with a election.

Modes of applications

The primary elections can be closed (only the Militant S of the party can vote) or more rarely open: in this case, all the sympathizers of the party can vote, without condition of membership. As it was the case in Italy in 2005, one requires sometimes voters that they sign a moral declaration of adhesion to the project carried by the future winner of the election.

Applications

The primary elections are the rule with the the United States, in particular for the candidate nomination to the presidential . They start to be essential in Europe: in Italy, vast open primary educations took place the 16 October 2005 to designate the candidate who will represent large the Coalition of the olive-tree of the center and of the left to the legislative elections of the April 9th and 10th 2006. They led to the designation of Romano Prodi.

In France, closed primary educations were organized in March 2006 to designate the candidate UMP with the town hall of Paris in 2008. They opposed old the Maire of Paris Jean Tiberi, the president of the UMP group to the Conseil of Paris Claude Goasguen, Pierre Lellouche and the Député E Maire of the XVII {{E}} district, Francoise de Panafieu. The latter was elected with the second turn after the withdrawal of its rival Claude Goasguen. In addition, the candidate of this party to the presidential of 2007 (Nicolas Sarkozy) was invested same manner, but finally without competitor. The Socialist party, more already accustomed to this practice, made in the same way in November 2006 and designated Ségolène Royal.

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