- We are moving towards a triangular PS - EELV - LREM in the second round of municipal elections in Lille.
- Environmentalists and the outgoing mayor failed to reach an agreement.
- The candidates LR and LFI will not merge with anyone and have given no voting instructions.
Everyone stays at home. After a long truce due to confinement, the race to the Belfry of Lille has indeed resumed. A race that looks more like a squabble with bitter statements and vengeful tweets, disputed between the camp of the outgoing mayor, Martine Aubry, and that of the environmental candidate, Stéphane Baly. Those absent from the second round are careful not to give their voters any voting instructions, at least for the time being.
Since this weekend, the divorce therefore seems largely consummated between Martine Aubry (PS - 29.8%) and Stéphane Baly (EELV - 24.5%). You will probably never know who is going to be the chicken or the egg, each side accusing the other of having brought negotiations to a halt with a view to merging the lists for the second round. With the LREM candidate, Violette Spillebout (17.5%), in ambush, we have a good chance of winning by betting that Lille will have to choose between three lists on June 28.
A last minute EELV - PS merger?
Officially, the games will not be made until Tuesday, at 6 p.m., the last deadline for submitting applications. And history teaches us that, since the accession of Martine Aubry to the post of mayor of Lille, in 2001, an agreement has always been found, even at the last moment, between the PS and environmentalists. However, each time, the Greens could have maintained themselves, even if they had never obtained a score as high as Stéphane Baly in the first round.
As for the big losers of March 15, the future is a little blurred. As soon as the government announced the organization of the second round on June 28, Marc-Philippe Daubresse (LR - 8.24%) got on his big horses to protest against this decision. "Having a vote in June in the red zones is a failure to assist people in danger!" ", He tweeted on May 21. The senator did not hide his desire to run again if the first round had to be canceled. In the meantime, it assumes that it will not merge with anyone and, to date, has not yet given voting instructions to its 3,274 voters.
Julien Poix waits to see to give his instructions
The other disappointed in the first round is Julien Poix, the LFI candidate, who failed to pass the 10% mark (8.84%). For the rest, the latter deserves to be at least clear on one point: "We say it loud and clear: not a voice should go to Ms. Spillebout! He wrote on Sunday. Julien Poix claims to have met Stéphane Baly and Martine Aubry to discuss the second round. "The exchanges with the two lists did not lead to a consensus on the new democratic tools that we are proposing," he lamented, adding that there would be no merger with either one or the other.
Julien Poix has nevertheless hinted that he could encourage his voters to vote Aubry or Baly on June 28 according to "the positions taken by the other lists on the proposals we had brought in the first round. There are 3,512 votes to retrieve from this side.
Elections
Municipales 2020 in Tourcoing: The mayor-minister Darmanin will cumulate “for a time” and wants to “weigh” more
Elections
Municipal in 2020 in the North: A transgender woman elected mayor of a village
- Martine Aubry
- Elections
- Municipal
- Lille