Ali Rabeh can sit down in his chair at the town hall of Trappes.

This close to the Génération.s movement of Benoît Hamon was reelected Sunday mayor of this city of Yvelines with 58.36% of the votes in the first round of a by-election under tension, reorganized after the cancellation of the 2020 poll.

“Tonight, the Trappists have chosen to re-elect Ali Rabeh,” his opponent Othman Nasrou admitted on Sunday evening.

Close to Valérie Pécresse (Free!), He was at the head of an unusual alliance formed with the former mayor PS Guy Malandrin and gathered 34.89% of the votes, according to the final results communicated by the prefecture of Yvelines.

Accusations of "patronage"

On Twitter, Ali Rabeh congratulated himself on Sunday evening with a victory "against a Zemmourized and patronage right" and with an increase in participation, to 41.59%, against 34.1% in 2020. He thus beats his rival of 1,361 votes.

“What pride, thank you to the Trappists!

", he added.

"We have obviously not succeeded in convincing that a Republican alternative was possible", for his part regretted Othman Nasrou in his press release published on Twitter, "nor to explain well the double game of Ali Rabeh or the danger of the methods who is using it ".

The election of Ali Rabeh by 161 votes in 2020 had been canceled by justice, which accused him of having distributed, in the midst of the pandemic, 15,000 masks accompanied for some of his photo, without this action having been declared in his campaign accounts.

In this popular commune of 32,000 inhabitants marked by the departures of dozens of young people for jihad in Syria, accusations of “patronage” punctuated the campaign on both sides.

Bayou and Mélenchon congratulate the winner

The invalid mayor Ali Rabeh denounced during the campaign the "drift" of the former mayor PS Guy Malandrain (2001-2020), became number three on the list led by Othman Nasrou. For his part, the latter blamed Ali Rabeh for a “clientelist” system with “intimidation, threats, pressure” that he would have put in place since his arrival at town hall in June 2020.

Ali Rabeh's victory was also quickly greeted Sunday evening by Julien Bayou, the boss of environmentalists, and by Jean Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Insoumise, the latter considering that "the union of the right and the PS is massively rejected.

"Nadia Hai, the minister responsible for the city and from Trappes, addressed her" republican congratulations "to the mayor and" hopes that after months of tension, (...) the inhabitants will finally find dignified political debates and serenity they deserve ”.

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