in Sète, dealing with the RN, resistance is organized in dispersion | EUROtoday

Monday May 12, there’s a crowd within the Tarbouriech room in Sète (Hérault), positioned beneath the Théâtre de la Mer, a formidable open-air amphitheater dealing with the Mediterranean. The 300 sq. meters are barely sufficient to comprise all those that got here to observe the election of the brand new mayor of the port metropolis. They are “tight like sardines”, in a deafening tumult, between boos and applause, says the ICI radio journalist.

When the Court of Cassation confirmed, in April, the conviction of the mayor (varied proper) of Sète, François Commeinhes, in workplace since 2001, in a case of embezzlement of public funds, the elected official instantly resigned. It was subsequently in an electrical environment that his deputy, Hervé Marquès, was elected on May 12, to succeed him. Mission: maintain out ten months earlier than the municipal elections, and get re-elected. “The municipal council is a little upset, upset, sad. The blows are delivered. We get up. Fall six times, get up seven times”he then confides.

Everyone agreed: a web page was being turned in Sète. And the National Rally (RN) is set to make the most of it. A 12 months earlier, Aurélien Lopez-Liguori was re-elected within the first spherical as a RN deputy, coming in first within the metropolis and within the constituency. “An actual sign for our political energyhe estimated in Free lunch. We have been trusted to characterize the Sétois within the National Assembly. I do not see why we would not be trusted to run the town. »

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