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The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers and candidate for re-election, Léonore Moncond'huy, in Poitiers, February 23, 2026.

Several lists for every camp or nearly, anticipated supporters who flip round, label modifications, native figures dispersed… No doubt, in Poitiers, disunity is at work earlier than the municipal elections. An election which is able to, for a lot of, really feel like a return match after that of 2020.

Six years in the past, Léonore Moncond’huy created a shock by being elected after a triangular election. The environmentalist candidate, on the head of a residents’ checklist, was a part of the “green wave” which swept by means of sure medium-sized and huge cities. But in contrast to Marseille, Strasbourg or Bordeaux, then held by the precise, it had taken Poitiers from the socialists, who had managed town since 1977, by largely defeating the outgoing mayor, Alain Claeys.

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