What are the terms of the Florian-Cazenave agreement in Bordeaux?

• Nicolas Florian will have to integrate thirteen members from the list of Thomas Cazenave in an eligible position.
• Médoc LREM MP Benoit Simian, a surprise guest on Florian's list, will pay the price for this agreement.
• The two candidates also agreed on a new version of their projects.

"They discovered each other during the crisis, and as soon as the date for the second ballot was known, they decided to meet. This is how Fabien Robert, current first MoDem assistant to the mayor of Bordeaux, sums up the rapprochement between the outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian, and the LREM candidate Thomas Cazenave. "Things accelerated last Thursday" we are still told in the entourage of Thomas Cazenave, and these discussions finally led to a common list agreement for the second round of municipal elections in Bordeaux.

Nicolas Florian, who had obtained 34.56% of the votes in the first round, will obviously lead this new gathering list. But he will integrate 17 members of the "Renewal Bordeaux" list of Thomas Cazenave - who came third at the end of the first round with 12.69% - including 13 members in an eligible position. Small subtlety: "We start on the principle of having an independent group" Renouveau Bordeaux "within this list because we wish to preserve our freedom of expression, specifies Aziz Skalli, LREM departmental referent. It is a coalition of projects, not a dilution of our ideas, that we will continue to embody. In addition, we also want to have a group in the metropolis, with all of the elected representatives of the different cities of Bordeaux Métropole. "

Thomas Cazenave would inherit a post of deputy mayor and a vice-presidency at Bordeaux Métropole. A price "heavy to pay" was commented Tuesday in the entourage of the outgoing mayor. "Recognition of our weight in the first round", we said more soberly in that of the candidate En Marche, analysis shared by Fabien Robert. It remains to be seen who, in Nicolas Florian's camp, will have to give up his place. Médoc Benoit Simian MP LREM, a surprise guest on the outgoing mayor's list, is among the “landed” we learned on Tuesday.

"Old World Political Agreements"

Nicolas Florian and Thomas Cazenave are organizing a joint press conference this Wednesday. But in a statement posted on Twitter early Tuesday afternoon, Thomas Cazenave justifies his choice by explaining that with the prospect of "30,000 new job seekers in the coming months in our metropolis, we must take responsibility (…) Approaching the second round of municipal elections without changing anything is now inconceivable. The crisis we are going through calls for a union of skills. "

He also claims "to have established contacts with the two candidates who came first", namely Nicolas Florian and Pierre Hurmic, "to overcome the divisions and respond to the urgency of the situation. “Pierre Hurmic and his team did not wish to participate in this republican approach. "

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This new rallying list will therefore face in the second round, the Bordeaux breathes list of Pierre Hurmic (EELV), who came second only a stone's throw from Nicolas Florian (34.38%) and the Bordeaux en Luttes list of Philippe Poutou, who had won 11.77% of the vote.

The environmental candidate, who is still allied with the PS and the PC, denounced Tuesday in a statement the agreement between LREM and LR for the second round, saying that "the prospects of posts prevailed over the announcements of the Eve of a Thomas Cazenave who said "share neither beliefs nor values" with Nicolas Florian. Seeing there “old world political agreements”, he nevertheless believes that “this reversal will not upset a ballot which has already expressed a thirst for change, including for more ethics in politics. "

Prime Minister allegedly worked for rally

It has been said since Monday that the terms of this agreement were dictated "from above". Understand that President Emmanuel Macron, and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, would have intervened. The designation of Thomas Cazenave as candidate of the presidential party in Bordeaux, against an outgoing juppeist mayor and considered as "compatible Macron" had cringe in the majority of Bordeaux, which includes in particular the MoDem, ally of LREM at the national level. "I hear that there were phone calls from Paris, it's" bullshit "", says Aziz Skalli.

"There was no direct intervention from either Bayrou, Juppe or Philippe," assures Fabien Robert. On the other hand, we reported and discussed with our respective leaders, of course. "And the first deputy mayor of Bordeaux to launch:" Who could believe for a moment that the government and the President of the Republic, were going to elect a social-ecological-communist coalition in Bordeaux? This did not exist under any assumption. "

The Rue Bordelaise project definitively abandoned?

Beyond the 13 members in an eligible position, Renouveau Bordeaux would have succeeded in getting the Florian clan to adopt some of the projects that the candidate Cazenave was carrying out. Like the abandonment of the Bordeaux street, this huge commercial street project between Saint-Jean station and the quays of the Garonne. "It's a project from another time, it's even more true today," continues Aziz Skalli. A third of small traders is at risk of disappearing due to the coronavirus crisis, this project is totally out of step with what has just happened, and with the need for local shops which is being felt. Nicolas Florian remained the only one of the four candidates qualified for the second, to defend this project.

Among the other files brought by Thomas Cazenave, which should be included in the new common list, is also “the redistribution of the city into sixteen districts, to revitalize proximity, especially around public services. "We also wanted to strengthen the issue of proximity," says Fabien Robert, who specifies that there will not be "16 town halls in the neighborhood, it would be financially untenable." "On several major subjects, we were not far away," concludes the elected official from Bordeaux.

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