The major political fact of the second round of municipal elections is first of all the historic breakthrough of environmentalists. which seized many large cities in France: Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Poitiers, Colombes, Annecy, Grenoble. In Marseille, the EELV candidate (in a union list of the left) is in the lead, but without an absolute majority. Environmentalists also actively participated in the victory of Anne Hidalgo in Paris and Mickaël Delafosse in Montpellier.
Historically low participation. Yesterday, abstention, historic, is the main factor in this second round of municipal elections. An estimated 59% to 60% of voters abstained.
Among the other outstanding results of the second round: Edouard Philippe was re-elected in Le Havre, Martine Aubry was elected with extreme accuracy in Lille, Jeanne Barseghian was elected in Strasbourg and Pierre Hurmic in Bordeaux. Jean-Luc Moudenc is the winner in Toulouse, Louis Aliot is elected mayor of Perpignan, Mathieu Klein is elected in Nancy, François Bayrou is re-elected in Pau, Christian Estrosi is elected in Nice. Here is an overview of the election in the 25 largest cities in France. Click on the link to display the details of the results.
Bordeaux: Pierre Hurmic (EELV) did not “believe it right away”
The day after his historic victory in Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic (EELV) confessed to FranceInfo: “I didn’t believe it right away”. Alain Juppé did not congratulate the new mayor of Bordeaux. According to the latter, the former Prime Minister “left the city of Bordeaux and the town hall where he spent the evening saying he was very sad”. Pierre Hurmic recalled that a few years ago Alain Juppé had proposed to Pierre Hurmic “to enter his majority. I explained to him that I was fighting for ideas and not for places and that we would not get along” “He admitted that Emmanuel Macron” got involved in these elections and there are a number of us who had a hard time with this last-minute political agreement. These old political machines have tried to block our way. ”
Aurélien Pradié (LR): “we are solid, facing environmentalists”
In the aftermath of EELV’s victory in several cities in France, Aurélien Pradié, secretary general of the Republicans, certified on FranceInfo: “We are there, solid, facing environmentalists.” According to him, “this is the new match that is being set up.” The Republicans must “carry a hope as strong as that which is being born in the minds of the French around the environmental question”. “It is up to us to play the match that lies ahead tomorrow against Europe Écologie-Les Verts and their alliances with the far left,” he said.
Romain Lopez (RN): Moissac “is not a laboratory for a possible return of Marion Maréchal”
Romain Lopez (RN), newly elected in Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne) with 62.45% of the vote, received “a message of congratulations” from Marion Maréchal. “But she does not work by my side,” he certified to FranceInfo. The elected official said to be “completely independent. Marion Maréchal stopped the policy, therefore it is not a laboratory for a possible return of Marion Maréchal.” If Romain Lopez is a member of the National Rally, he defended “a different approach which is not politicized”. According to him, “goodwill can be found everywhere, at RN, right and left”. Accused of tarnishing the memory of the Shoah – Moissac saved several hundred Jewish children during the Second World War -, Romain Lopez intends “to work on this level to develop that memory which is the pride of our commune.”
EELV will refuse to enter government, says Yannick Jadot
Guest on Europe 1 this lunid, Yannick Jadot indicated that any entry of EELV to the government was excluded, while rumors of corridor beforehand suggested that Emmanuel Macron intended to poach some environmental figures. The EELV MEP considered that the Head of State was still in “denial of the ecology” and urged him to apply “without filter” the 149 proposals of the Citizens Convention on the climate received today in the Elysee.
Bruno Retailleau (LR): “En Marche pulled us to the bottom”
On RTL, Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, commented on the defeats in Marseille and Bordeaux. “Inevitably it hurts,” he conceded. “In Marseille, it is a political lesson, which is eternal. There is no shorter path to defeat than division,” he analyzed. However, he said, “there is going to be a third round.” “Bordeaux is perhaps the fact that there was a confusion of convictions. We saw that when we allied with En Marche, En Marche pulled us to the bottom”, he thinks. Despite the loss of these historic bastions, Bruno Retailleau praised: “we will remain deeply rooted in France, in the France of small towns. Large cities too, like Nice.”
Grégory Doucet wants a “100% cycling city”
The candidate EELV, elected last night in Lyon, indicated this morning on the antenna of Jean-Jacques Bourdin that he intended to make Lyon a city “100% cycling” and a “city at height of children”. He also plans to create “a new green lung on the hill of Fourvière”.
Bruno Retailleau: “When we allied with #LaREM, they pulled us to the bottom”
Guest of RTL on Monday morning, Senator LR considered that the alliances formed by his party with the candidates of the presidential majority were a real bad decision. In fact, the alliances turned out to be losers in Bordeaux and Strasbourg, which the right hoped to win.
Anne Hidalgo sure to be elected mayor in the 3rd round in Paris
The outgoing mayor, in Paris, thus obtained a hundred seats for all of his lists. Anne Hidlago will therefore be easily elected by the Councilors of Paris, who are the elected members who vote, at the end of the electoral process, and appoint the new mayor. The left, however, does not manage to seize the 9th and 5th arrondissement of the capital, which was one of the objectives it had set for this 2nd round.
Pierre Hurmic (EELV): “I am a pragmatic green”
Pierre Hurmic (EELV) won the mayor of Bordeaux, the bastion of the history of the right. On RTL, the interested party said: “I am a pragmatic green. I was locked in a punitive and sectarian ecology during the campaign. But the Bordeaux people know that I do not correspond to this caricature of Khmer green.” The ecologist has promised to “put Bordeaux in tune with the new ecological aspirations that are the imperatives of the coming years”. He hopes to “pacify the relations between the municipal majority and his opposition” by entrusting the presidency of the finances of the commune to an elected representative of the opposition. The lawyer by profession wishes to defend “an urban planning compatible with ecological and climatic imperatives” and promises in particular to “freeze the major real estate programs that have concreted the city”.
Philippe Olivier (RN): “there is no particular conclusion to be drawn from such a chaotic election”
Despite a victory in Perpignan, the Rassemblement National draws up a mixed picture. Philippe Olivier, adviser and brother-in-law of Marine Le Pen, justified to Le Monde: “It was a somewhat strange election, we say to people, don’t go out but go to vote. And our popular electorate was a little scared by the epidemic and has tended to abstain. ” According to him, “the wave was confirmed in the second round, and this always benefits the outgoing – or the candidates already established: it is no coincidence that Perpignan and Bruay-La-Buissière were carried away by two of our deputies . ” If the RN promises to question massive abstention, Philippe Olivier estimated that “there is no particular conclusion to draw from such a chaotic election.”
Important victories for the PS in the second round of the municipal elections
This is one of the lessons from this second round of municipal elections: the socialists are picking up colors and recording victories described as “formidable” by the First Secretary, Olivier Faure. The PS therefore wins Paris, Rennes, Nantes, Nancy, Le Mans. Socialists also take part in Michèle Rubirola’s victory in Marseille. “This is what is happening, we have in this country something that is being born, a social-ecological block that must now be consolidated,” assured Olivier Faure.
Emmanuel Grégoire believes that Anne Hidalgo’s victory reflects a “need for clarity”
On FranceInfo, Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo’s first assistant, welcomed “massive support from Parisians for the project” of the outgoing mayor. According to him, “it is the need for clarity that allowed this victory for Anne Hidalgo”. He reported: Anne Hidalgo “insisted that she is the mayor of all Parisians and that she will want to bring them all together. She is not the mayor of a camp, nor of a Clan. We still have to get to work and continue this work of transformation of Paris. ”
Louis Aliot will not leave the National Rally
The day after his victory in Perpignan – without the RN label -, Louis Aliot certified on RTL: “I have no reason to leave” the party of Marine Le Pen. “But this political formation must progress, must professionalize, to manage to gather beyond what it brings together today”, he conceded. This gathering must “take into account those who want to discuss”, without “falling on anathema, rejection and insults”. According to him, the members of the RN are “citizens like the others” who play “the game of democracy like all the other parties”.
Christian Jacob (LR): “we are returning to victory”
After the municipal elections, Les Républicains lost Bordeaux and Marseille, two historic bastions. However, Christian Jacob, president of the party, praised on France 2: “we are returning to victory”. The party claims victory in “more than half of the cities with more than 9,000 inhabitants”. The party official said: “This augurs well for the senatorial, but also departmental and regional elections to come.”
For Stanislas Guerini the result of Agnès Buzyn is “extremely disappointing”
On RTL, Stanislas Guerini, general delegate of LREM, described the result of Agnès Buzyn “as extremely disappointing”. However, “I will absolutely not throw a stone at Agnes Buzyn who resumed our Paris campaign under extremely difficult conditions and who did so with solidity and courage,” he added. Stanislas Guerini wants to “learn lessons” from these elections. According to him, “the division in Paris” is “a poison”. The LREM executive indicated that these municipal elections are “a stage” for the presidential party.
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