Political concerns for 2014 Angers polls risk to be out of step with present economic worries

The slow approach of the 2014 municipal polls start to worry people and politicians, both from the right and the left sides. The potential candidates to head Angers town hall may have been themselves surprised by some initiatives. 

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On the right side, Christophe Béchu, present president (Ump) of the Conseil général de Maine-et-Loire, has clearly expressed his disagreement and even his bitterness after Jean-François Copé, a proeminent character of French politics, announced that Mr. Béchu will be candidate to Angers town hall. On the left side, the present Angers mayor, Frédéric Beatse, discovered that week that some left personalities of Angers, and among them a Maine-et-Loire senator, launched an appeal for primaries between himself and his contender, Jean-Luc Rotureau. 

It's not sure such initiatives are really well-timed given the economic difficulties Angers inhabitants are facing. With the closure of Technicolor, a page of economic history of Angers is turning over. Recently, the statistics disclosed a worrying trend of unemployment in the city : 9,3% of the persons able to work in the city are jobless. The store owners of down town announced a new demonstration against the deterioration of their business because of town hall initiatives, what could be linked to a new slowdown of households expenses. Are Angers inhabitants already interested by 2014 elections?