Thomas Cazenave will lead a union checklist of the precise and the middle | EUROtoday

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Thomas Cazenave, in the Bassins à Flot district, June 12, 2025.

After three polls and on the finish of laborious negotiations, the precise and the Bordeaux middle have lastly reached, a couple of days earlier than Christmas, an settlement with a view to the municipal elections of March 2026. Thomas Cazenave, municipal councilor and metropolitan Renaissance in Bordeaux, will attempt, on the head of a union checklist (Les Républicains [LR]Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, Radical Party, Union of Democrats and Independents, New Center, Centrist Alliance), to reconquer the mayor’s chair, snatched from the precise by the ecologist Pierre Hurmic in 2020. Nathalie Delattre, president of the Radical Party and municipal councilor since 2008, who claimed to steer the checklist with the assist of LR and the MoDem, lastly bowed and can chair the assist committee. His presence on the checklist isn’t recorded. His re-election to the Senate in September, nonetheless, appears assured.

An settlement reached after months of discussions and some rigidity. Because if Emmanuel Macron’s two former ministers, with very completely different profiles, had agreed originally of 2025 to make use of polls to determine between themselves, they by no means managed to agree on the phrases of this “essential tool for measuring expectations” individuals from Bordeaux.

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