It was not until 10:45 p.m. to find out. The candidate Pierre Hurmic (EELV) and the outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian (LR) stood shoulder to shoulder for a long time during this first round of the municipal elections in Bordeaux. Two estimates have long given the ecologist in mind, a third placed the heir of Alain Juppe in front.
At 11 p.m., Nicolas Florian said during his speech at the town hall of Bordeaux to be at the head of the first round, ahead of Pierre Hurmic by only 96 votes. "The team and the list I lead is leading the night of the first round," he said. The candidate LREM, Thomas Cazenave, with 12 to 12.9% of the votes, and Philippe Poutou (NPA) with 10.8 to 12.4%, are outdistanced,
A thunderclap in the city of Alain Juppe
The mere fact that the first two arrive in a pocket handkerchief sounds like a thunderclap in this city where Alain Juppe, the mentor of the outgoing mayor, used to be elected in an armchair from the first round.
Bordeaux, which has not had a second round since 1947, is today in a position to know a quadrangular. Emmanuelle Ajon (PS) who joined Pierre Hurmic (EELV) on the Bordeaux Respire list, assured on TV7 that Bordeaux was living "a historic moment" after the first polls crediting the environmental candidate of about 36%, even if the "tone is serious" due to the context of the coronavirus.
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The political game was disturbed by the nomination of a candidate LREM, Thomas Cazenave, in a city whose mayor is however deemed Macron-compatible. This Bordeaux enarch, who came down from Paris for the occasion, refused Sunday evening to give his position for the second round. "I will meet with my running mate and I will announce my position tomorrow," Monday said Thomas Cazenave. He launched during his campaign "I will go to the end!" " "I did not say the opposite," he reaffirmed Sunday evening, when asked about this sentence.
Pierre Hurmic assured to rule out any second round negotiations
Pierre Hurmic, in any case, has already ruled out any second-round negotiations. "Don't count on me tonight either to say there will be device discussions." Those who know me know that I hate political devices and even more the discussions of devices, "he said to the press.
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A fourth candidate played the troublemakers in this city, reputed to be bourgeois but which was also a bastion of "yellow vests". Philippe Poutou, ex-NPA candidate for two presidential elections, gathered more than 10% around his “anti-capitalist” list. The union leader, who unsuccessfully led the fight for the Ford factory in Blanquefort, a Bordeaux suburb, has already warned during his campaign that he would stay in the second round if he obtained more than 10%.
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