the “rebels” hope to create a shock | EUROtoday

If some facetious political scientist will get the urge to at some point write an anti-succession guide, he’ll completely should go to Villeneuve-d’Ascq, to ​​attempt to perceive how the outgoing left-wing mayor of the fifth metropolis within the North (63,000 inhabitants), Gérard Caudron, was in a position to create such division in his personal camp. Four of his former deputies are actually among the many eight candidates competing within the municipal elections. A scattering synonymous with complete uncertainty.

Three months in the past, Gérard Caudron, 80 years previous, with seven mandates below his belt since 1977 – he was mayor between 1977 and 2001, then since 2008 – declared himself a candidate for an eighth time period, earlier than giving up and lining up behind the “citizen” record of his finance deputy, Sylvain Estager, of whom he however painted an unflattering portrait on BFM-TV, in October 2025: “He has problem feeling individuals, he will get indignant with everybody. » In the meantime, the delegate for sport, Farid Oukaïd, who says he has no label, the deputy (Socialist Party, PS) for participatory democracy, Victor Burette, and the deputy for city planning, Vincent Baledent, on the head of an inventory from the middle and the appropriate, have additionally declared themselves candidates.

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