- The right and the center were until now largely majority in the metropolis of Bordeaux.
- The municipal elections have reshuffled the cards, and rebalance the power game between right, left and the Greens.
- Until now, the principle of "co-management" prevailed in the metropolis, but the new mayor of Bordeaux, the ecologist Pierre Hurmic, is hostile to it.
- The right continues on its side to be favorable, and could elect a PS mayor if that allows to keep this principle six more years.
The right “ready for anything” to save co-management in the metropolis, even if it means having a socialist mayor elected? This is one of the scenarios that emerges in view of the election of the future president of Bordeaux Métropole. The current president, the mayor of Bouscat Patrick Bobet (LR), clearly announced on Sunday evening that he had started discussions with the socialist mayor of Mérignac - the second most important municipality of the metropolis behind Bordeaux - Alain Anziani.
After the second round of municipal elections on Sunday, 17 municipalities in the metropolis are now in the hands of the left or the Greens, and 11 acquired on the right or in the center. Pierre Hurmic (EELV) conquered Bordeaux and Stéphane Delpeyrat (PS) delighted Saint-Médard-en-Jalles to the outgoing mayor, the centrist Jacques Mangon. The right still managed to keep important cities, including Pessac and Villenave d'Ornon.
Result: the Community of the future group (right and center), which until now had a large majority in the metropolis with 62 seats, now only has 38 - including at least two elected officials stamped LREM - but still remains the leading political force , since the PS is left with 32 seats, the Greens 29, the PC 4 and the far left (NPA) a seat.
Co-management is a “logic totally foreign to Pierre Hurmic”
Since the creation of the metropolis, formerly the Urban Community of Bordeaux (CUB), the principle of "co-management" prevails to govern the establishment. Co-management is a principle of equity and solidarity between the municipalities, so that none of them is harmed, regardless of the majority in place. "A logic which is completely foreign to Pierre Hurmic, underlines the political scientist of Sciences-Po Bordeaux Jean Petaux, even if we do not know what other solution he proposes, while no political force gives off an absolute majority ..."
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The new mayor of Bordeaux did not stop during his campaign to fire red bullets on this principle of co-management, calling it "the club of 28 mayors". He believes that this policy "where everyone preaches for his parish" can only lead to "soft consensus", and is no longer relevant given the power of the metropolis today. And he has every intention of shattering it.
This is not the case with Alain Anziani. The PS mayor of Mérignac is a fervent defender of it. "For him, co-management is not a matter of small arrangements between friends, stresses Jean Petaux, but quite simply the very principle of EPCI, public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation, so as not to harm any municipality". Community of the future also defending co-management, the group from the right and from the center could therefore logically favor the election of the mayor of Mérignac.
Can Hurmic find enough elected socialists in the same position as him?
Pierre Hurmic still hopes "to find a part of the socialist group which would be in the same position as him", explains Jean Petaux. Some PS mayors are indeed closer to the mayor of Bordeaux than that of Mérignac on this issue. How many ? Here is all the question. “The Greens have 29 elected representatives, and the majority in the metropolitan area is at 53 votes, so it has to find 24 socialists, or 20 socialists and the 4 communists. It still seems difficult, but we may not yet be at the end of our surprises in these elections, "continues Jean Petaux, who believes that" the game is still extremely open. Could another candidate come out of the hat, for example the mayor of Eysines Christine Bost, a socialist too?
The election of the president of the metropolis is scheduled for July 17. The meetings and discussions, which started on Sunday evening, will continue intensively until then.
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