In the Bouches-du-Rhône, the RN places strain on the mayors for the following municipal elections | EUROtoday

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Franck Allisio, deputy Rally National, in Marseille, March 3, 2024.

The departmental secretary of the National Rally (RN) within the Bouches-du-Rhône, Franck Allisio, assures him: his initiative “Should not be seen as a pressure stroke, but as a outstanding hand »»… However, a year from the municipal elections of 2026, the idea of ​​asking outgoing mayors to join a label validated by the RN, under penalty of being opposed a list invested by the Lepénist Party, has the appearance of ‘A threat. The La Provence label that we love, presented publicly, Friday January 31, has only harmless name. And he inevitably disturbs the mayors of the 119 municipalities of a department where the RN and its allies of the Union of Laws for the Republic, in 2024, conquered eleven of the sixteen legislative districts and took the city of Rognac during a municipal partial, in November.

These victories rocked the local political landscape. “It can be incorrect to disclaim the electoral weight of the RN on our territory …”concedes Georges Cristiani, President of the Union of Mayors of Bouches-du-Rhône and first councilor (without label) in the village of Mimet. “Around the Etang de Berre, in the country of Arles, the Alpilles, mayors, in the center and on the right, nourish a real fear of seeing RN lists present against them. And this label is only a new way of putting a mask on the RN to seduce those which would still be reluctant ”worries the ex-deputy (Renaissance) Jean-Marc Zulesi, himself beaten in 2024 by a lepenist candidate.

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