EELV MEP Yannick Jadot praised Sunday evening the victory of a "hope around a beautiful project" ecologist during the municipal elections. "What won this evening, it seems to me, is the desire for a concrete ecology, an ecology in action," he congratulated himself on TF1 on the evening of the second round. Party spokesperson Eva Sas, for her part, mentioned on France 2 "a green wave (which) is rising in France".
The results of the municipal elections
The EELV candidates were able to make the “green wave” of the first round surge to the top of the town halls on March 15, despite the long parenthesis of the coronavirus epidemic. Environmentalists certainly presented themselves with ambition in the municipal elections after successful Europeans in 2019, but few executives privately spoke of a surge of such magnitude. Finally, they earn nothing less than the two largest cities in the country after Paris - where they will still be part of the majority of Anne Hidalgo.
Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux
And this, with candidates often unknown to the general public. In Lyon, Grégory Doucet should win a clear victory with between 50 and 54% of the votes according to several institutes, ahead of Yann Cucherat (DVC-LR) and Georges Képénékian (LREM diss, PRG) 16%. In the metropolis, Bruno Bernard claimed his victory over the alliance between Gérard Collomb and Les Républicains.
In Marseille, Michèle Rubirola would relegate the heiress of outgoing Jean-Claude Gaudin, Martine Vassal (LR), about 10 points behind her, according to the same sources. The Greens are doing particularly well, having supported in the first round an autonomous list before having to merge with the union of the left carried by the dissident ecologist.
Bordeaux, which had elected right-wing mayors in the first round for 73 years, also experienced a real explosion, Pierre Hurmic (45-47%) beating Alain Juppé's successor, Nicolas Florian, between two and four points .
And environmentalists can boast of victories in Besançon, Poitiers, Tours, Annecy, and even in Ile-de-France in Colombes (nearly 90,000 inhabitants), where Yannick Jadot, MEP and ex-head of the list visited EELV in the Europeans.
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