US EditionSuccess in Paris, Marseille, Lyon: France's Left Party, but It's Too Early
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The local elections in France have promised surprises, but much has remained with the past. As a forecast for the presidential election, they do little: the brightest winners of today could be the losers of tomorrow.
The left, allied with LFI or not, won in several metropolises on Sunday in the second round, but lost some of its strongholds to the right. At the other end of the political spectrum, the far right led by Eric Ciotti advanced in the South.
Between the hegemony of the left in the metropolises and the historic breakthrough of the national bloc in the medium-sized cities, the election of 2026 is that of a radically polarised France. Between alliances and resistances,...
In Lille, Rennes and Nantes, socialists Arnaud Deslandes, Nathalie Appéré and Johanna Rolland were re-elected. Thomas Cazenave gave Renaissance his first major city in Bordeaux, while François Bayrou was beaten with a short head in Pau.
In the second round of the municipal elections on Sunday, 22 March, he managed to confirm his progress in his fiefs of the south-east and the north, and to make some breakthroughs in departments where he had never had mayors, the far-right party failed to take the big cities he coveted, Marseille, Toulon and Nîmes.
EUROPE The left maintains Paris, Lyon and Marseille and National Grouping wins in Nice and the Riviera Trapped in its alliances with LFI, the left loses bastions but saves the main cities.
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