The extreme right, lined up behind the former number two of the army, General Bertrand de la Chesnaie, lost his bet at the municipal elections in Carpentras (Vaucluse), where the various left mayor Serge Andrieu was re-elected to the favor of a triangular.
Serge Andrieu's list ended largely in the lead, with 45.81% of the vote, ahead of Bertrand de la Chesnaie, supported by the National Rally without belonging to it, with 39.17% of the vote. The candidate LR Claude Melquior collected 15% of the votes. 60.74% of the voters abstained.
Symbol city
Facing the extreme right, "the Carpentrassiens have always held, well held. I only wish one thing, that Carpentras stops being the city that the National Rally has been seeking for years, because they cannot win with us! ", Reacted Serge Andrieu on France 3 Provence.
Results of the municipal elections in Caprentras
"I have two disappointments, the monstrous abstention and the demonstration that if we had made the union on the right, it would have passed," said Bertrand de la Chesnaie, denouncing "a big bullshit" from the party The Republicans who is maintained.
At the start of the campaign, the National Rally hoped for a victory in this symbolic city for the party, 30 years after the desecration of the Jewish cemetery by skinheads. The moral responsibility of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the National Front, was pointed out at the time. Marion Maréchal was elected in 2012 in one of the constituencies of this city.
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