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Benoît de Boysson, Reconquest candidate! from the Bourg ambition list, composed with several local personalities from the Les Républicains (LR) party, sticks up its first campaign posters, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain), on February 7, 2026.

Just two months in the past, somebody near Eric Ciotti, president of the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), dreamed of a “inverted republican front against the left”, “1,000 times Dreux 83”in reference to “thunder of Dreux”the primary incidence of a second spherical alliance between the precise and the far proper, to beat the left in a municipal by-election, in 1983. “It’s going to happen, sub-prefecture mayors, LR [Les Républicains]various right-wingers, who want to get along between the two towers. There are already many who want to deal”assured this supply. A fireplace that the Parisian headquarters of LR would have problem placing out.

Will this be the case, nonetheless? Will these municipal elections be the scene of a rapprochement between the precise and the far proper? At the National Rally (RN), it’s steered that solely the “threat” of a “rebellious” victory may result in alliances… “I am not closed to there being discussions on potential union lists or assembly lists in the second round, if there is a danger of seeing the extreme left seize a certain number of municipalities”mentioned Jordan Bardella, Saturday February 7, on BFM-TV.

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