Patrice Vergriete returns to the marketing campaign with out a actual competitor in entrance | EUROtoday

This day in December 2025, for the inauguration of Verkor, the primary gigafactory in what should grow to be the Dunkirk electrical battery valley, Patrice Vergriete drinks whey. With his tall determine, the mayor of Dunkirk (North) goes from one individual to a different, very snug amongst all of the area’s figures from the financial and political world. A transpartisan ecosystem like what he achieved in two mandates: bringing collectively personal and public actors to make them work collectively on his obsession, the transformation of this industrial territory which had ended up collapsing beneath the onslaught of deindustrialization.

When, in 2013, he slammed the door of the socialist majority led by former minister Michel Delebarre, whom he had joined in 1995, “Dunkirk was the French urban area which lost the most inhabitants, we had a series of factory closures and the commercial vacancy rate in the city center was enormous”poses the kid of the nation, who ran towards his former mentor in politics in 2014. He received on the head of a center-left coalition. Rebelote in 2020, from the primary spherical, and with 64% of the votes. A plebiscite.

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