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In Pessac, on the outskirts of Bordeaux, the municipal marketing campaign is clearly seen. “With Franck Raynal, proud to be from Pessac”can we learn on a big shiny yellow banner, which appeals to all those that use the primary artery. In the center of the leaflets, in his tidy marketing campaign premises, the 54-year-old outgoing mayor, candidate for a 3rd time period, appears to calmly method his new marketing campaign.

Franck Raynal was nonetheless a member of the Les Républicains social gathering – he has since develop into a Horizons departmental delegate – when he swung the town, in 2014, into the fold of the precise, narrowly, with 51.89% of the vote in opposition to the outgoing socialist mayor Jean-Jacques Benoît. In 2020, within the midst of a well being disaster linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, he was re-elected by 174 votes in opposition to the socialist Sébastien Saint-Pasteur, former collaborator of Alain Rousset – the president of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine area led the town from 1989 to 2001.

It is due to this fact beneath the banner of his former classmate at Sciences Po Edouard Philippe that Franck Raynal is returning to the marketing campaign for the election of March 15 and 22. But he’s challenged by Bérangère Couillard, former deputy (2017-2022) and minister answerable for equality between men and women and the struggle in opposition to discrimination within the authorities of Elisabeth Borne, who presents a listing to the municipal elections after shedding the 7^e constituency of Gironde, in 2024, for the good thing about Sébastien Saint-Pasteur.

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