After Lyon, La République en Marche divides in Villeurbanne. The deputy LREMBruno Bonnell announced this Wednesday his candidacy for the metropolitan and municipal elections in Villeurbanne while the first deputy of the city Prosper Kabalo has already been invested by En Marche! for the town hall.
Bruno Bonnell is associated in his approach with the former local head of the Republicans Emmanuelle Haziza. There will therefore be two lists from LREM in this city of nearly 150,000 inhabitants, bordering on Lyon. This further reduces the chances of the government party to steal this socialist stronghold where the environmental candidate does not hide her ambitions.
"Our party is Villeurbanne," said Emmanuelle Haziza without joining LREM. The lawyer defends herself from being a "dissident" list. She will be a candidate for mayor, and Bruno Bonnell head of the list in Villeurbanne for metropolitan areas, a constituency in which the presidential party has not yet invested any candidate. "It's a thing to lose the city. Collomb doesn't like Kabalo. But we, we preferred Kabalo to the city and Bonnell to the metropolis, “responded a party official in Paris.
Supported by the departmental referent of the party
“Villeurbanne was one of the only cities in France that one could win. It’s all mediocre, ”he added. Morgan Griffond, departmental referent of the party, present this Wednesday said to support the approach of Bruno Bonnell and Emmanuelle Haziza, who nevertheless appears at the town hall against Prosper Kabalo.
Bruno Bonnell left doubt over his choice for the presidency of the metropolis, between the outgoing David Kimelfeld, who came from LREM, and the mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb, invested by LREM. "We'll see that later. No candidate is excluded today. I will support one who has a vision of Villeurbanne who joins mine, ”added the former entrepreneur.
Last week, during a meeting with AFP, Prosper Kablo spoke of "stubbornness and a personal adventure" of Bruno Bonnell, while denouncing his "ignorance of local communities". Asked Wednesday, he had not yet responded to the announcement of his rival. In addition to the LREM nomination for the municipal elections, Prosper Kabalo also hoped to win the support of the government party for the metropolitan areas.
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Asked about the situation in Villeurbanne, the mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb highlighted his long collaboration with Bruno Bonnell, one of the first walkers. "I believe he saw the President of the Republic and therefore, if he leaves, it is, it seems, for a good cause, perhaps with the assent of the President of the Republic", he said on the sidelines of his wishes to the press.
Last week, Emmanuelle Haziza announced her departure from the Republicans in reaction to her party's choice to present only men as head of the list in the 14 constituencies of the metropolitan area of Lyon in 2020.
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