The 150 cities to watch in the second round of the 2020 municipal elections

What if the main loser in the second round of municipal elections was … the Republicans party? Despite its good results in the first round, on March 15, the formation chaired by Christian Jacob could suffer, Sunday, June 28, some significant losses.

There are several reasons for this. First of all, the atypical victory that the right had won in the municipal elections of 2014, sweeping over 140 cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants to the detriment of the left, in a context of disavowal of the President of the Republic at the time , Francois Hollande. During this election, a form of rebalancing takes place in sociologically left-wing municipalities.

Second reason: in many cases, the right managed from the first round to bring together all of its components, including with the center right, unlike the left which often left scattered. The consequence is that it has few reserves in the second round: LR as the UDI should pay the price. Finally, there is also the fact that, since 2017, the ranks of LR have scattered, some of its members having moved closer to the Macronist shores while others distanced themselves at the time of Laurent Wauquiez’s presidency.

Overview of the 150 cities to follow during the second round of municipal elections.

• The possible conquests of EELV

The first round confirmed the breakthrough achieved by environmentalists in the 2019 European elections. Grenoble, where the outgoing mayor, Eric Piolle, who came largely in the lead with 46.7% of the vote, should be re-elected, the lists led by EELV have taken the lead in several large cities. This is the case at Lyon, with Grégory Doucet, who obtained 28.5% in the first round and joined forces with the candidates LFI (10.1%) and PS (7%), facing a coalition led by Yann Cucherat (LRM, 14, 9%) supported by Etienne Blanc (LR, 17%).

A Besancon, Anne Vignot (31.2%) is well ahead of the LRM candidate, Eric Alauzet (18.9%). Emmanuel Denis (35.4%) is able to dislodge the radical Christophe Bouchet (25.6%) from the town hall of Tours, who has allied himself with the “walker” Benoist Pierre (12.7%). The battle will be very close at Marseille between the ecologist Michèle Rubirola (23.4%) and the president of the metropolis (LR), Martine Vassal (22.3%), in a quadrangular arbitrated by Stéphane Ravier (RN, 19.5%) and the dissident LR Bruno Gilles (10.7%).

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