The second round of municipal elections will take place on Sunday and in some large cities, such as Strasbourg, Nantes or Perpignan, the suspense remains. Overview of the hot spots of the second ballot.

Postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the second round of municipal elections will finally be held on Sunday. If 30,000 mayors have already elected on the evening of the first round on March 15, others are not yet determined. From Paris to Bordeaux, via Lyon and Le Havre, Europe 1 takes stock of the cities where the results are particularly undecided and expected.  

Paris

By joining forces with the ecologist David Belliard (EELV), the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS) has taken a very big step towards his re-election. Meanwhile, his two rivals, Agnès Buzyn (LREM) and Rachida Dati (LR) did not get along. Anne Hidalgo should therefore prevail widely.

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Lyon

Gérard Collomb had created the surprise last May 28 by choosing to ally himself with the candidate LR François-Noël Buffet , after the bad result of his list in the first round (third, with less than 15% of the votes). The former Minister of the Interior, in charge of the city since 2001, then decides to withdraw from the race for the presidency of the metropolis. Turning to the right, he chooses to block environmentalists. Result: LREM no longer has a candidate in the second largest city in France. The second round will be played between François-Noël Buffet and Bruno Bernard (EELV).

Marseille

Who will succeed Jean-Claude Gaudin, mayor of Marseille since 1995? The environmental candidate Michèle Rubirola , who gathered the left in a movement called "Printemps Marseille", came first in the first round. Behind her, Martine Vassal , the runner-up of the outgoing mayor, failed to federate the right. She also finds herself entangled in a case of proxy fraud. A preliminary investigation has also been opened. These suspicions could weaken the one which is already embarrassed by Bruno Gilles , the dissident candidate on the right who decided to stay. The Front National is also present in the second round, represented by Stéphane Ravier .

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Toulouse

The second round between the outgoing mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR) and the ecologist Antoine Maurice seems particularly close. Jean-Luc Moudenc, supported by LREM, came first (36.19%), ahead of Antoine Maurice (27.57%). But the ecologist enjoys the support of PS candidate Nadia Pellefigue (18.53%), who withdrew from the second round. According to an Ifop / Fiducial survey carried out for La Dépêche du Midi and Sud Radio, Antoine Maurice is ahead of the outgoing mayor by one point.

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Bordeaux

Right since 1947 (Jacques Chaban-Delmas 1947-1995 then Alain Juppé 1995-2019), will the city of Bordeaux switch to the left? Nicolas Florian , mayor since the departure of Alain Juppé for the Constitutional Council and designated successor of the former Prime Minister, came in first in the first round, but with a very short head (34.55%). The candidate Les Républicains beat the environmentalist Pierre Hurmic by only 96 votes! In the second round, it will be a triangular one, Philippe Poutou (NPA, 11.77%) having decided to maintain itself. Thomas Cazenave (LREM), close to Emmanuel Macron, joined Nicolas Florian. This alliance could well give the advantage to the outgoing mayor.

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Le Havre

In Le Havre, a tight duel awaits Edouard Philippe , facing the Communist deputy  Jean-Paul Lecocq . After hoping for an election in the first round, the Prime Minister finally came out on top with 43.59% of the vote. An Ifop-Fiducial poll published on June 11 gave the head of government the winner with a short lead (53%). If elected, Edouard Philippe has already announced that he will keep his post at the head of the government and that the interim will be provided by Jean-Baptiste Gastinne, as is already the case today. "If the voters trust me, I will be back in Le Havre. No later than May 2022, but perhaps much sooner," said Edouard Philippe in Paris-Normandy .

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Lille

For the first time since 2001, the Greens and the Socialists failed to agree to carry a common list in the second round. Will this operation cost her election to Martine Aubry , mayor of the city for 19 years? In the first round, she came out on top with 29.80% of the vote, ahead of her former ally Stéphane Baly (EELV, 24.53%). An Ifop poll published on June 18 placed the former Minister of Labor winning with only two points ahead of her opponent. A surprise cannot be excluded.

Strasbourg

The game of alliances could well tip the second round of municipal elections in Strasbourg. The environmental candidate Jeanne Barseghian was largely in the lead after the first ballot (27.88%), ahead of Alain Fontanel (LREM, 19.86%), Catherine Trautmann (PS, 19.78%) and Jean-Philippe Vetter (right, 18.27%) . But in the inter-lap, nothing went as planned for Jeanne Barseghian who failed to find an agreement with the socialist candidate, unlike her opponents of LREM and LR.

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Montpellier

In Montpellier, the second round of municipal elections is surprising. In a last Ifop poll for Midi Libre, the outgoing mayor Philippe Saurel (various left) is preceded by Michaël Delafosse (PS) by five points. But a third candidate is also present: Mohed Altrad , billionaire entrepreneur, president of the city rugby club and ally with the list of… Rémi Gaillard, anti-capitalist humorist, supported by France Insoumise. The association which has what to surprise is credited with 25% of the voting intentions in the second round.

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Perpignan

Arriving widely in the lead on the evening of the first round, Louis Aliot (RN, 35.66%) has never been so close to victory. In 2014, the Frontiste bowed to the candidate LR Jean-Marc Pujol, now in difficulty (only 18% of the votes in the first round). To block Louis Aliot, Agnès Langevine (EELV, 14.5%) and Romain Grau (LREM, 13%) withdrew. But at the same time, three ex-running males of the presidential candidate decided to support Louis Aliot.