The candidates still vying for the second round of the municipal elections, which will take place on June 28, had until 6 p.m. Tuesday to deposit their final lists. In some cities, new alliances have been born, such as between the candidate LR and LREM in Bordeaux. But in Strasbourg, for lack of alliance, four candidates will compete in the second round. However, an alliance on the left between the environmental candidate Jeanne Barseghian (28% of the votes) and Catherine Trautmann, socialist mayor from 1989 to 1997, former minister of culture (20% of the votes), could have sealed the election.
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"Idiots" and "gourmands"
How to explain this failure? "I hate that we are taken for idiots and I hate that we simply want to walk on our heads," says Catherine Trautmann. "But you must never despise an opponent. So we will continue, I will continue with the dynamics of my list and my running mate. All said to me 'Catherine we will be by your side no matter what'."
On the side of the Green camps, we are sorry for the expectations of the socialists, considered too greedy. "What has been constantly opposed to us is to say that this merger could only be done on condition of support for the presidency of Catherine Trautman at the Eurometropolis. But I cannot see myself being imposed similar conditions ", retorts Jeanne Barseghian. "We cannot sum up our future, the future of our city, by a question of space."
Tensions that can only delight the candidate La République en Marche, Alain Fontanel, who won 20% of the vote in the first round in March. A merger on the left would have completed it. He has just filed his list and had already refused an agreement with the fourth candidate Les Républicains, Jean-Philippe Vetter. The latter had collected 18% of the votes.