from native elections to nationwide points for the assorted political forces | EUROtoday

Except for a brand new dissolution of the National Assembly, it is going to be the final step earlier than the presidential election. The municipal elections, the 2 towers of that are scheduled in March 2026, historically play on native points. How to renovate town heart? What to do to draw new merchants? Will we have the ability to keep away from the rise in land taxes? Are we going to bear class closings? And, for political forces, it’s above all a query of preserving and successful cities.
And but, “One year from the presidential election, even if this ballot responds to a very local logic, the municipal elections will inevitably have a dimension of test gallop”notes Jérôme Fourquet, director of the “opinion” division at Ifop.
In the municipal elections of 2001, the Socialist Party (PS) had obtained leads to trompe-l’oeil (a defeat compensated by some vibrant victories, as in Paris or Lyon), which had been maybe saying the route of 2002. But political life is at this time disinterested, warns Jean-Yves Dormagen, professor of political science on the University of Montpellier: those that dominate the nationwide scene are absent from native political life. The Republicans (LR) and the PS preserved their municipal management in 2020, however had been laminated within the presidential election of 2022.
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