Lille (AFP)
The socialist mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, in the race for a fourth mandate, presented on Saturday a program strongly tinged with ecology and a renewed list with the ex-deputy Audrey Linkenheld in third position.
With the slogan "Lille in common, Lille in confidence", this list of 61 names, renewed at 57%, includes half of PS candidates but also representatives of the PCF and PRG as well as a third of personalities from civil society .
One finds there in particular the ex-deputy PS and current municipal councilor Audrey Linkenheld, 46 years old, in third position - and therefore future runner-up - as well as relatives of the former minister Patrick Kanner, in line with the recent reconciliation between the mayor of Lille and the patron of socialist senators, another tenor of the northern left, after several years of cold.
"It is a collection list of the left and people from civil society. I, unlike others, do not spit on political parties," said Aubry at a press conference. "All of this was done in agreement with the PS, with the idea of bringing together the left and the center which share our values".
Promising to "not raise taxes" during the future municipal mandate, the former Minister of Employment has outlined the main lines of her program, emphasizing the "ecological transition", which "must go hand in hand with more social justice. "
"The first major objective is to make a city more peaceful and sustainable. We must go even faster to adapt to climate change and mitigate the effects," said Ms. Aubry, making "the commitment to reduce by 40% l greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 ".
Landscape metamorphosis, soft mobility, fight against pollution with microparticles - "our big problem" -, efforts for "zero waste": it has multiplied the winks to the ecologist Stéphane Baly, whose party has recorded in European of 2019 the best score in its history in Lille (21.7%) and which leads its own list to municipal elections.
At the head of the city since 2001, Martine Aubry, 69, announced at the end of November her candidacy for a fourth and final mandate, in a delicate context for the PS who has lost almost everything in four years in the region. "Don't worry, I won't be a candidate again," she joked on Saturday.
Also in the running for the elections of March 15 and 22 are his former cabinet director, Violette Spillebout (LREM), Stéphane Baly (EELV), Marc-Philippe Daubresse (LR), joined on Friday by the macronist MP Valérie Petit and the chief opposition leader Thierry Pauchet (various right), Julien Poix (LFI) and Eric Cattelin-Denu (RN).
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