- Metz is no longer a socialist. After Dominique Gros's two terms, the Moselle city passes to the right with the election of François Grosdidier.
- Senator Les Républicains is known to have notably been the mayor of the neighboring town of Woippy ... and for court cases.
- In the Senate, this father of three was notably given a fact-finding mission on the police after a series of suicides in 2017, and was a member of the commission of inquiry into the Benalla case.
The suspense was intense for the municipal elections in Metz, Sunday evening. Until 10:30 p.m., the echoes were the same everywhere. François Grosdidier and Xavier Bouvet were inseparable at the level of the ballots… Until the first officially became the successor of Dominique Gros.
Senator LR, 59, brought the Moselle capital back to the right by beating the union list of environmentalists and the left, far ahead of RN candidate Françoise Grolet. He totaled 45.13% of the vote against 44.24% to his main opponent, or 197 votes apart!
Close to Alain Juppé
Elected deputy at only 32 years old (he sat in the National Assembly from 1993 to 1997, then from 2002 to 2011), senator since 2011, François Grosdidier, close to Alain Juppé, joined the RPR in the 1980s and sat as a municipal councilor in Metz from 1989 to 1995.
Pointing to the fall in the attractiveness of the city, the closing of shops and the lack of cleanliness, the man who was briefly military in his youth before resuming law studies, leaned on this campaign with great desire. experience at the head of the nearby town of Woippy. A city "which was a lawless area, where dealers held the upper hand", and which he says he transformed when he was mayor between 2001 and 2017.
Convicted for misappropriation of public property
In the Senate, this father of three was notably given a fact-finding mission on the police after a series of suicides in 2017, and was a member of the commission of inquiry into the Benalla case.
But François Grosdidier also experienced setbacks with the justice system: he was convicted in 2015 for “misappropriation of public property” for having used a company vehicle from his town hall in Woippy to go frequently to Paris, at the time when he was a deputy and candidate for the presidency of the UMP in 2004. An investigation for “illegal taking of interests” and “embezzlement of public funds” targeting him was also opened in early 2019.
Election results in Metz
For the anecdote, in Metz, François Grosdidier takes the head of a city in which a street bears the name of his grandfather, the historian and writer Marcel Grosdidier de Matons, rewarded by the French Academy in 1937 for Le mystery of Joan of Arc .
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