9.45 a.m. A bad evening for the Communists in Val-de-Marne. The PCF lost four historic bastions, Champigny-sur-Marne, Valenton, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Choisy-le-Roi to the right. Only Villejuif goes back to the left, with a head of the Communist list.
9:25 a.m. Republicans want to see the glass half full. The right party remains the majority party in the territories, but records serious setbacks by losing Perpignan and especially Bordeaux, and probably Marseille. However, Lot’s deputy Aurélien Pradié congratulates himself, and prefers to underline the “colossal rout LREM”. “We had to disappear. We are strong. We are returning to victories, ”he even launched on Twitter.
The Republicans are the primary political force in the territories. We were to disappear. We are strong. We are returning to victories. It is the road to reconstruction. The rout is colossal for LREM, everywhere. End of illusion for the Marconist balloon.
– Aurélien Pradié (@AurelienPradie) June 29, 2020
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9:10 a.m. The varied evening of Manuel Valls. The former Socialist Prime Minister was not stingy with compliments last night as the results. A tweet on the left, a tweet on the right. “Very happy for my friend Olivier Blanchi re-elected in Clermont-Ferrand”, he writes about the socialist’s victory, a few minutes after having published “all my congratulations to Edouard Philippe for his great victory in Le Havre, it’s largely deserved “. 9 hours. Poutou city councilor. Former NPA presidential candidate Philippe Poutou came third with 9.39% of the vote in Bordeaux. He is therefore elected to the city’s municipal council. 8:50 a.m. Paris is well worth 6 cards. A record abstention, a very large victory for Anne Hidalgo, and a bitter setback for the majority. We will decipher the election in Paris using maps.
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8:35 a.m. “Not a good evening” for LREM. The boss of the macronist movement Stanislas Guerin can only recognize this: “the results are not up to what we would have liked. “I have disappointments, insists the general delegate of LREM, we would have liked to move the lines”.
8:20 a.m. do you know them? It was perhaps the first time that you heard their name last night, but they symbolize the green wave of these municipalities. Grégory Doucet in Lyon, Michèle Rubirola in Marseille, Pierre Hurmic in Bordeaux, Jeanne Barseghian in Strasbourg, Léonore Moncond’huy in Poitiers…
8:10 a.m. “No, this is not the return of the plural left”. While on the PS side, officials insist that it is especially the union of the left that won, the national secretary of EELV makes things clear on LP / public Senate. “I don’t think it’s a return to the plural left, the driving force behind these victories is not necessarily the old-style left side but the desire for renewal, with something central which is ecology “Insists David Cormand.
8 hours. The PS uses a few colors. If he loses Poitiers and almost was defeated in Lille where Martine Aubry wins with only 200 votes in advance, the PS keeps notably Paris, Nantes, Rennes, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Le Mans… He also wins cities like Nancy, Chambéry, Bourges or Laval.
7:50 a.m. The PS behind a green candidate in 2022? On RTL Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, calls himself “a happy man”. “It is a map of France which corresponds to what I had dared to dream about,” he said of yesterday’s results. Hi the green wave “When you’re a team, you count all the goals, not just the goals we scored with our own players […] We need each other to prevail and last night, the victory was a victory, first of all, of the rally and of the social-ecological block that we have built up, ”he adds. Olivier Faure does not deny the green dynamic and is pleased that “environmentalists are the force they have become, not only for them, but also for all of us because we need ecology”. Questioned, the boss of the PS said he was ready to “line up behind the one who will embody social-ecology”.
7:35 a.m. Paris under the microscope. Anne Hidalgo is comforted in Paris. Agnès Buzyn, who only came in third position in the 17th arrondissement, did not manage to obtain enough votes to become a councilor for Paris. Same setback for Cédric Villani, candidate in the 14th arrondissement. Find the detailed results map in Paris.
7:30 a.m. In 4 hours, it’s Macron. The president takes the floor at 11:30 am to give his answers to the 150 members of the Citizen’s Climate Convention that he receives at the Elysée Palace.
VIDEO. Green tsunami for municipalities: “Macron must have a green strategy for 2022”
7.15 a.m. A wave amplified by the coronavirus? The future ecological mayor of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian believes that yesterday’s results mark a “profound change in our society”. “Ecology has become a major concern”, she underlines on BFMTV, an awareness reinforced by the health crisis “.
7:05 a.m. Ballot boxes are no longer fashionable. The low participation rate is partly explained by the fear of the Covid-19. But not only. Year after year, the abstainers are more and more numerous. This second round still broke a record with almost 60% of abstention, while the municipal ones are considered one of the preferred elections of the French.
7 hours. A greener France… on the electoral map at least. Strasbourg, Lyon, Bordeaux, Poitiers in particular gave victory to the environmental candidates.
6:55 a.m. Voted yesterday (but few). Hello ! The second round took place yesterday in more than 4,800 municipalities. Today is Monday, we are telling you live reactions and comments from the day after the election.
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