Tuesday, June 2, at 6 p.m., all the lists present in the second round of the municipal elections will be known. Between now and the mandatory filing of the lists in the prefecture, the backstage negotiations between the different political forces are intense. Because when several movements are in competition in a city, the stakes are high: it is not a question of obtaining more than half of the votes, but simply to arrive at the head to be able to direct the municipality.
A hoped-for alliance between the Greens and the PS in Paris ...
In Paris, despite a very good lead from the first round, Anne Hidalgo (29.33%) wants to widen her majority and join the Greens of David Belliard (10.79%). This is what Emmanuel Grégoire explained at the microphone of Europe 1 Sunday. The First Deputy Mayor of Paris, also a candidate in the XIIth arrondissement of the capital, said that he hoped for an agreement between the lists Paris en Commun and those of EELV. "We are in the process of defining the outline of the project and working on the future governance that we want to do together. (...) I am hopeful that it will succeed in the hours to come," he said. .
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... but not in Lille
Elsewhere, discussions between the socialist left and environmentalists have failed, particularly in Lille. "We were ready to change governance (...) However, Lille Verte 2020 was braced on a distribution of seats which in no way reflects the results of the first round", regrets in a press release the mayor's team outgoing Martine Aubry, leading on March 15 with 29.80% (24.53% for EELV). Including LREM's (17.53% in March), there will therefore be three competing lists in the capital of Flanders.
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A republican front facing the National Rally in Perpignan
Because only the lists having collected more than 10% of the votes can remain in the second round. And in some cases, the Republican front has forced some candidates to withdraw for the one best placed to face the National Rally. In Perpignan, it will therefore be the outgoing mayor Jean-Marc Pujol (18.43% in the first round) who will face Louis Aliot, who came out on top in the first round (35.65%).
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Surprises may still arise
The latter will be able to count on a surprising support, since if the heads of ecological lists and LREM have withdrawn, a candidate present on the macronist list has decided to support the RN for the second round.
An unprecedented political fact, which testifies to a campaign completely reshuffling the cards of political alliances. In Lyon for example, the former socialist Gérard Collomb, who had received the investiture of LREM ... has allied himself with the Republicans. In Nantes, the macronist candidate invited the other qualified from Nantes (LR, EELV, PS) to go beyond the cleavages to constitute a unique list serving Nantes residents "in a spirit of republican concord".
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By the end of the filing of the lists, everything can still be done everywhere in France. Some 5,000 municipalities are affected by the second round of voting, scheduled for June 28, but which, if the coronavirus epidemic were restarted, could again be postponed.