In Bordeaux, the municipal campaign takes shape

• In Bordeaux, a second historic round will oppose four candidates: the outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian, the ecologist Pierre Hurmic, Thomas Cazenave (LREM) and Philippe Poutou, the candidate of the far left.
• The campaign was put on “stand-by” the day after the first round, on February 22, for the benefit of managing the Covid-19 epidemic.
• Since the deconfinement, the candidates, Nicolas Florian and Pierre Hurmic at the head, have relaunched their campaign even if they advance masked.

An unconventional municipal campaign. In Bordeaux, the teams of the four candidates who could face each other again at the end of June for a second round have been exchanging for several days some kindnesses on the burning files which heckle the capital of Gironde. Progressive deconfinement requires, it is through the press, press releases or via social networks that the outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian (LR), Pierre Hurmic (Bordeaux Respire), Thomas Cazenave (LREM) and Philippe Poutou ( Bordeaux in struggles) evoke the crisis at the Girondins de Bordeaux, the Bordeaux-Orly air shuttles, the holding of the second round of municipal elections or… the management of the Covid-19 epidemic. Suspended the day after the first round, the municipal campaign is reopened, even if the four candidates deny it.

Indeed, you are not at all in an electoral campaign ... https://t.co/of39qrgRj8

"We said that we were withdrawing so that efforts were concentrated on the health crisis. We have kept our word, advises Pierre Hurmic at 20 Minutes . Today, we cannot help but respond to Nicolas Florian's remarks. He restarted the tempo of the electoral campaign, which he never stopped. "Same observation on the side of the far left candidate who did very little media coverage during the episode Covid-19:" Nicolas Florian has never suspended his campaign and he took advantage of the epidemic to take advantage of his adversaries who were confined, ”said Philippe Poutou.

"That Florian says he's not campaigning is daring"

The start of Act 2 was, according to Thomas Cazenave, given in early May when Nicolas Florian's teams offered themselves a "special edition" of Sud Ouest . The advertising booklet which took over the graphic charter of the local daily newspaper was not according to him "a serious error" that it could not "let pass" and a "communication strategy hidden in a journalistic form".

My reaction to the fake special edition of Sud Ouest ordered by the town hall of #Bordeaux ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/pSbbe27dU9

My open letter today to the editor of @sudouest: We want to mark our deep disagreement with these practices of another time, which can only harm the reputation of the editorial staff of Sud-Ouest. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/NlOngzYDLY

“This supplement is proof that [Nicolas Florian] made electoral propaganda. It was clearly an act of campaign, "analyzes Pierre Hurmic who regrets that" democracy was confined "during the epidemic crisis. Unlike Thomas Cazenave who believes he has been listened to by the city, the green candidate claims to have never had the mayor's attention and obtained a single municipal council with forceps "with a paltry agenda". "Nicolas Florian acted this way because he knows he is in trouble," says Philippe Poutou. The problem is that he takes advantage, without scruple or fair play, of the means of propaganda which gives him the advantage of having the keys of the town hall. "

"From this platform, I am taxed with opportunism"

So the outgoing mayor has he surfed on his good management of the crisis to be, at the end of June, a step ahead of his opponents? Nicolas Florian denies: “From this platform, I am accused of opportunism but some mayors, like that of Metz who does not represent himself, had nothing to gain by signing it. We need stability in the executive whatever it is. We must close this electoral chapter so that institutional life can resume. Sunday in the  JDD , 36 mayors of big cities called to organize the second round quickly. The scientific council does not oppose an appointment at the polls on June 21 or 28, but under certain conditions.

This Wednesday, Philippe Poutou indicates to 20 Minutes that he will soon be "back in the countryside". "We were not on the ground, but we never stopped talking with the mayor, admits his side Thomas Cazenave. And if Nicolas Florian has not stopped campaigning, I have not stopped working either. Just like Pierre Hurmic and Philippe Poutou. As for the candidate Bordeaux breathes, he ensures that he will officially deconfigure his campaign only after the confirmation of the date of the second round. "We are finally settling on the calendar imposed by Nicolas Florian and we will certainly hold a press conference as early as next week," said Pierre Hurmic, however. We will quickly discuss the themes of this campaign which will have to do without the field. "

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