Jean-Luc Moudenc, outgoing LR mayor supported by En Marche, claimed Sunday a comfortable victory in Toulouse, in the second round of the municipal election. He faced the ecologist Antoine Maurice who led a large green-left coalition. "It is confirmed," at "just over 52%," said Jean-Luc Moudenc upon his arrival at the Capitol to make a speech.
"We have gathered beyond political cleavages"
He expressed his "gratitude" to the voters of the fourth city of France, a traditional municipal bastion of the center-right. Jean-Luc Moudenc came out on top in the 1st round with 36%. "We have gathered beyond political cleavages, proposed a project that brings together", added the elected official, who had been given lose by three polls after Antoine Maurice, 39, had succeeded in federating the entire leftist arc , EELV-FI-PCF-PS-PRG.
Renewed after having already occupied the Capitol from 2004 to 2008, this high-ranking official close to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe attributed his maintenance despite the green wave in France to the fact of having been able to present a "consistent ecological assessment", a project "bearers of a responsible, realistic and pragmatic ecology". "To assert republican authority, to implement the preferential option for the poorest in a context of increased tearing of the social fabric will be my major concerns", he declared in the hall of honor of the town hall.
Jean-Luc Moudenc had given in alarmism to his rival, accusing him of being a Trojan horse for the arrival of "extremists" at the Capitol, and of threatening to "break growth" in Toulouse, at when the French aeronautical capital has to face the crisis in the sector caused by the Covid epidemic. "I regret the climate in which this campaign took place, which was not up to the stakes for our city, a climate made up of lies, caricatures and personal attacks," said Antoine Maurice, taking note of his defeat.