Perpignan (AFP)
MP RN Louis Aliot was elected mayor of Perpignan Friday by the City Council after his victory over incumbent mayor LR in this city of 120,000 inhabitants, making first big municipal RN from Toulon in 1995.
"We are here with a clear democratic choice of Perpignan," said Mr. Aliot in the agglomeration council hall where the council was held.
He shared in a very consensual discourse, his will to "build a new Perpignan dynamic and united" against the "sense of abandonment" prevailing in his town in a leaded by high levels of poverty and unemployment.
On his fourth attempt to conquer the Catalan city, he was elected on Sunday in the second round to head an unlabeled list with 53% of the vote, facing the mayor Les Républicains Jean-Marc Pujol (47%).
This historic framework of the National Front received the votes of 42 advisers on Friday, out of a total of 57.
"Trafficking of all kinds will stop," he promised, announcing a redeployment of the municipal police and "assistance to the victims". In terms of safety, "I demand of the State that the means are in place," he began.
He also set as a priority "the fight against unworthy housing" especially in the gypsy district of Saint-Jacques in the city center.
Together, we work and we will succeed, "he insisted, saying to want to open the commissions of the Town Hall to the opposition.
"We will be the voice of the 52,000 Perpignan people who did not vote for you," retorted her rival Chantal Bruzzi, adding the votes collected by Mr. Pujol and the abstainers.
The next deadline for Mr. Aliot will be Monday, July 13, the agglomeration council of which he seeks the presidency. But the lawyer of 50 years, could be faced with a barrage of mayors without labels and LR.
In accordance with the rule on the cumulation of mandates, he will cede his seat as a deputy for the Pyrénées-Orientales, which he won in 2017, to his deputy, Catherine Pujol.
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