The environmental candidate for mayor of Perpignan, Agnès Langevine, who came in 3rd position in the 1st round with 14.5% of the vote, announced on Saturday that she would withdraw, to block the candidate of the National Rally and favorite of the municipal elections, Louis Aliot .
At the head of an EELV-PS list, the vice-president of the Occitanie regional council had been beaten by the deputy RN Louis Aliot (35.6%) and the outgoing LR mayor, Jean-Marc Pujol (18.5 %). She invokes "a republican duty of public health" to explain her decision. "I call on all voters to use their vote to definitively confine the ambitions of the candidate of the National Rally and to vote for the list which remains opposed to him," she said in a statement addressed to the 'AFP.
"Identity withdrawal and deconfinement of hatred"
"I am afraid to see the Perpignais.es direct their anger and their rage towards a mortal choice. That of the decline of the city, the withdrawal of identity and the deconfinement of hatred," added the ecologist, stressing that his movement had tripled its score in 2014. Thursday, it was the candidate LREM Romain Grau (13% in the 1st round) who had given up, a "republican withdrawal" also aimed at preventing the Lepenist party from taking over the town hall of this city of 120,000 inhabitants.
Jean-Marc Pujol, a 71-year-old lawyer, has been a municipal councilor since 1989 and mayor since 2009, when he had succeeded Jean-Paul Alduy. In 2014, Jean-Marc Pujol had beaten Louis Aliot in the second round, benefiting from a good carryover of votes after the withdrawal of the PS candidate.