Louis Aliot and Carla Muti largely won the by-election in the 5th canton of Perpignan-Canohès. The RN enters the departmental council. A first in the Pyrénées-Orientales and a new victory for the mayor of Perpignan after the grand slam of the National Rally in the legislative elections
The victory is final. After the town hall of Perpignan, Louis Aliot entered the Departmental Council. A first in the Pyrénées-Orientales. With his partner Carla Muti, municipal councilor of Canohès, he won the second round of the partial departmental election in the 5th canton, that of Perpignan-Canohès with 53.5% of the vote. Even if he comes first in his town, the mayor of Canohès Jean-Louis Chambon, and his teammate Florence Micolau, only gather 46.5% of the vote. Participation is slightly up (23.6%) compared to the first round (21.6%). Louis Aliot said to himself “satisfied with the result”while adding: “Now we still have to keep reason. There is a very low participation”.
It is an important victory. I think it’s a signal, a symbol too. We are entering the Departmental Council and we will finally be able to defend our positions. The door opens today, we rush into the breach if I may say so and now, from the inside, we will be able to work seriously.
Louis Aliot, RN mayor of Perpignan and departmental councilorFrance 3 Occitania
With 26.36% of the votes, the incumbents, Mathias Blanc and Françoise Chatard, sitting for the departmental majority, had been eliminated on Sunday November 27. And on the evening of the first round, with 44% of the votes cast, the tenor of the National Rally and his partner had already far outstripped the various right-wing duo of Jean-Louis Chambon and Florence Micolau, who had only won 27.6% of the vote. voice.
Marine Le Pen immediately hailed the “bright” victory of Louis Aliot. A victory which, according to her, “confirms the popularity of the RN” et “validates the management of elected RNs in the cities they lead.”
Jordan Bardella also congratulated Louis Aliot and Carla Muti, stressing that “local presence and good management pay off”. In his city of Perpignan, Louis Aliot won no less than 65.5% of the vote. For the new president of the National Rally, elected at the beginning of November at the head of the party against the same Louis Aliot, this is a “example to follow in the future everywhere in France for the RN”.
“And one more victory!” applauded Anaïs Sabatini, one of the four RN deputies elected last June. The National Rally is indeed strengthening its local roots here after winning the four seats in the Pyrénées-Orientales in the legislative elections.
Despite the defeat of the outgoing councillor, socialists and communists retain control of the departmental assembly. In a press release, Hermeline Malherbe, the socialist PS president, reacted strongly to this result. “This partial departmental election in the canton of Perpignan-Canohès took place in a very particular context, which did not in any way allow for a peaceful campaign. The election of the Rassemblement national Louis Aliot-Carla Muti duo is only the sad outcome. In 2021, voters elected Mathias Blanc and Françoise Chatard, candidates from the left within the Departmental Majority. Who benefits from the recourse of the right against the RN? To the extreme right! Once again, the local right is making short work of Louis Aliot and the National Rally!“
In May 2021, in this 5th canton of Perpignan-Canohès, the PS pair won in the second round with 51% of the votes, but less than a hundred more than that of the RN (49%). The election had been invalidated by the Council of State due to the ineligibility of the candidate of the party of Marine Le Pen, a former customs official.
