The “rebellious” Louis Boyard extensively crushed by the candidate Les Républicains, Kristell Niasme | EUROtoday

The Les Républicains de Kristell Niasme’s Les Republicans received, on Sunday, February 2, with 49 % of the votes, the Municipal Election of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne) by beating these of the outgoing mayor, Philippe Gaudin, And the candidate La France Insoumise Louis Boyard, introduced the city corridor.

The ex-assistant priest spent within the opposition prevails with 442 votes prematurely on the candidate LFI (38.75 %), regardless of the upkeep of Philippe Gaudin, who solely obtains 12.25 %. The participation was up within the second spherical, with nearly 40 % of voters (39.69 %) having moved, towards 33.45 % within the first spherical Sunday January 26.

This poll was a check for rebellious France (LFI), one yr from the municipal elections. In the primary spherical, the 24 -year -old LFI deputy had arrived barely within the lead, with 24.89 % of the votes towards 22.70 % at his rival LR, simply 92 voices. On paper, this metropolis in southern Val-de-Marne of some 35,000 inhabitants represented a fertile floor for the municipal ambitions of a motion which concentrates its electoral technique on youth and well-liked districts. It is probably the most deprived city, with a poverty price of 34 %, and the youngest on this Parisian suburbs division. Louis Boyard had additionally been re -elected deputy within the second spherical of the legislative elections in July 2024 with a promising rating of 61% on this metropolis.

In April 2024, the Nazi salvation of the outgoing Marie, Philippe Gaudin, in full municipal council, had resulted within the resignation of a number of municipal councilors and the holding of this early election.

“The Villeneuvois have sent a strong signal, they do not want chaos or the bankruptcy that represents LFI, but a courageous and competent mayor”welcomed the LR president of the Ile-de-France area, Valérie Pécresse.

“The severe defeat suffered by Louis Boyard is good news for the inhabitants, but also for all the French attached to the Republic and to a certain idea of ​​politics”in the meantime, tweeted the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. “Tonight, the right is really back”he added.

During his marketing campaign, M^me Niasme had guess on a rejection of the “rebellious” candidate, describing him in his career of religion as a “Parachute apparatchik” and a “Agitator”led by “An ideology of chaos”. Louis Boyard had responded to anathema by calling on social networks on the “Mobilization” towards “The extreme right of Kristell Niasme”.

“Alone against all, LFI gathered 38 % of the votes”reacted Louis Boyard, who refused to “Wearing a speech of defeat” Sunday night, whereas throughout the municipal elections of 2020, “The left gathered without LFI had made 27 % in the second round of the elections”.

“The responsibility of the left forces which refused the rally in the second round is immense. The declarations of the Socialist Party, taking up the campaigns of denigration of the fascist media against the list of Louis Boyard, will have contributed to the maintenance to the power of the most extreme right ”castigated the LFI coordinator on X, Manuel Bompard.

Same criticism within the chief of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who denounced a political class “UNE[e] facing LFI “. “Boyard’s score is an acquired acquired for the next municipal in a year and for all our lists in the first round”nevertheless, he mentioned.

Arrived in third place within the first spherical, with 20.70 % of the votes, the Union listing of the PCF-Eelv-Ps left withdrew and had known as to make the precise beat, with out succeeding in merge with the listing of Louis Boyard.

“The Villeneuvois are the big losers in the left division, imposed from above”deplored on X Daniel Henry, PCF candidate on this listing.

Ancient employees’ metropolis, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges developed round its imposing SNCF sorting station earlier than present process the throes of deindustrialisation. Marked by her robust heritage railway employee, she was directed for greater than thirty years by the Communists for the reason that Second World War, together with just lately between 2008 and 2020.