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Departmental in Seine-Saint-Denis: in Tremblay, a left canton cut out for the right


A red pillow and a pair of gold scissors. At the end of 2013, Pierre Laporte (LFI) offered these presents to the Prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis at the time during a stormy meeting of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis. With this gift, the one who was already one of the vice-presidents of this assembly protested against the “electoral slaughter” imposed by the government.

Since the 2015 departmental elections, the canton of Tremblay-en-France has included three other municipalities, all owned by elected officials from the right and from the center: Montfermeil, Vaujours and Coubron. If Pierre Laporte and Dominique Dellac (PCF) had largely won in the second round six years ago, they were preceded in the first by a certain Jordan Bardella (RN).

“This redistribution was not innocent, recalls the rebellious tremblaysien, elected to the departmental council since 1998. It is a time when the Socialists and the Communists were in struggle to lead the department. The objective was to make us lose by associating Tremblay with three right-wing towns, while the logic was to link us to Villepinte. “

Six years later, the infighting of the left has given way to a cordial understanding. The transpartisan union led by the president of the departmental council Stéphane Troussel (PS) has chosen to support the outgoing elected officials and therefore, not to present candidates in front of him, unlike in 2015.

The RN presents itself with “even higher ambitions” than in 2015

Vice-president of the delegated health department, Pierre Laporte highlights his results, on vaccination – the departmental council has opened a center in Tremblay-en-France – or on dental health. Dominique Dellac, she recalls that she fought for the preservation of the Poudrerie park or for the maintenance of the agricultural school Fénelon, in Vaujours.

Their tandem will face three pairs. On its left, the Democratic Independent Workers’ Party intends to make its difference heard. “In Tremblay, the department had a plan to regroup PMI (maternal and child protection) centers against which we campaigned,” recalls Micheline Guillemette, candidate alongside Romain Tellier. Pierre Laporte, whom I know well, participated in this policy. “

On the right, the other two tandems are claiming a qualification for the second round. The National Gathering hopes to repeat its results from the 2015 departmental results, once again focusing on youth.

Montfermeil, June 14. The mayor of Montfermeil Xavier Lemoine stands alongside Lynda Ait Mesghat, a resident of Tremblay-en-France who worked for 26 years at the Vert-Galant clinic. LP / AA Alexandre arlot

“Our ambitions are even higher, loose Nicolas Pierron, a 27-year-old lawyer in tandem with Natacha Ferreira, a student three years his junior. Six years ago, we had collected 2,000 more votes between the first and second rounds. Which means we have reserves of votes. “

On the right, a former Marcheuse alongside the mayor of Montfermeil

Eliminated in the first round in 2015, the mayor of Montfermeil Xavier Lemoine (PCD) returns to the campaign with a resident of Tremblay, and not of Vaujours as six years ago. “At the time, the voters of Tremblay may have felt aggrieved,” concedes the elected, who welcomes the local notoriety of his sidekick.

Lynda Ait Mesghat, a former nurse at the Vert-Galant clinic then unionized with the CFDT, campaigned for Emmanuel Macron in 2017. “Disappointed”, she accuses the head of state of having “made a lot of announcements “On the theme of gender equality,” but the means did not follow.

The pair pleads in particular for a reconstruction of the college Jean-Jaurès and “for a more demanding balance of power with the State” on several files, such as the “social debt” which weighs on the Seine-Saint-Denis or the crossing of the bridge of Vert-Galant.

The sea serpent of the construction of a third college in the south of the canton is unsurprisingly invited into the countryside. Dominique Dellac ensures that Xavier Lemoine opposed it. This denies, and emphasizes that “land was available” in Montfermeil.

The mayor is now talking about a possible schooling of secondary school students in the suburban district of Franceville in Pablo-Neruda, in Gagny. “In this case, there will be no more social mix in Jean-Jaurès, which will become the college of Bosquets”, warns the outgoing departmental councilor.

Identity record

  • Population of the canton (Tremblay-en-France, Montfermeil, Vaujours and Coubron). 75,300 inhabitants.
  • Outgoing advisers. Dominique Dellac (PCF) and Pierre Laporte (LFI).
  • Results of the first round of departmental in 2015. Jordan Bardella and Christine Prus (RN): 30.33%; Dominique Dellac (PCF) and Pierre Laporte (FG): 29.38%; Xavier Lemoine (PCD) and Christelle Martinez-Bailly (UDI): 26.99%; Gérard Auger (PS) and Angélique Melitti (EELV): 13.30%
  • Results of the second round of departmental in 2015. Dominique Dellac (PCF) and Pierre Laporte (LFI): 58.96%; Jordan Bardella and Christine Prus (RN): 41.04%
  • Candidates in 2021. Natacha Ferreira and Nicolas Pierron (RN); Dominique Dellac (PCF) and Pierre Laporte (LFI); Xavier Lemoine (PCD) and Lynda Ait Mesghat (SE); Micheline Guillemette and Romain Tellier (POID)

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