Jean-François Copé is searching for a sixth time period | EUROtoday

Jean-François Copé, of the Les Républicains (LR) celebration, has been navigating the mysteries of nationwide political life for 3 many years, and simply as a lot as he has been main the city of Meaux, of which he has been mayor since 1995. Parachuted into the sub-prefecture of Seine-et-Marne by Jacques Chirac, the previous president of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2012 to 2014, deputy of the 6^e constituency between 2007 and 2017, readily describes “a city that has found harmony again”whose points he repeatedly highlights within the nationwide enviornment.

The 76.3% of the votes within the first spherical of the municipal elections in 2020 testify to the simple help of the previous UMP boss on this city of 56,000 inhabitants. “I still have the flame, because being mayor of Meaux no longer has anything to do with what it was twenty years ago”affirms the 61-year-old man, who might nevertheless be pushed round by competing lists on the left and the far proper.

For his sixth municipal marketing campaign, the previous minister desires to be guarantor of the “protection of residents in the face of violence and divisions”. And regionally declines the rating that he performs on the nationwide scene, occupying the area of those that refuse “any alliance with the extremes”notably with the National Rally (RN).

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