Pré-Saint-Gervais will find a mayor, two months after the final cancellation by justice of the result of the municipal elections 2020. And unsurprisingly, it is Laurent Baron (PS) who will recover his chair in a few days: the outgoing candidate was re-elected this Sunday during a partial municipal election hit by a low turnout (35.5%, two points less than in the first round).
Almost final results fell around 10 p.m., the list of the socialist candidate obtaining 56.91% of the vote. “We are consolidating our municipal majority of March 2020, which is very good news, appreciates Laurent Baron. It will be a political clarification and it will make it possible to work in the interest of the inhabitants for the rest of the mandate. The political project for which they voted last year will be able to take place. »
Unlike the 2020 ballot, which took place in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and on the eve of the first confinement, Laurent Baron did not obtain an absolute majority in the first round, contenting himself with a score of 49, 50%. He was therefore forced into a triangle against the lists of Grégoire Roger (without label, 20.98%) and Delphine Debord (LFI, 12.05%), who did not reach an agreement to merge their lists.
Abstention still on the rise
This Sunday evening, Grégoire Roger would come in second place, with 28.86% of the vote. A “very satisfactory” result for the elected opposition member. “Obviously, what we are aiming for is the town hall and nothing else. We want to be in management and not in opposition, recalls the professor of history and geography. We congratulate Laurent Baron on his victory, but we have made a lot of progress: 19% last year, 21% in the first round, there we are at almost 30% going from three to five elected… That means something. It is the first stone and the proof that the inhabitants have adhered to our campaign. »
Delphine Debord’s list has progressed little, reaching 14.23%. “Our main regret is not having convinced more people to vote. We are reaching thresholds on representativeness which raise questions, ”observes François Brindejonc, one of the spokespersons on the list.
The results of March 2020 had been invalidated by the administrative court of Montreuil and then by the Council of State. Forty-two ballots “harming the sincerity of the ballot” had been wrongly invalidated, according to justice. Laurent Baron had obtained an absolute majority of only seven small votes, with 50.19% of the vote.
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