a duel introduced between the outgoing mayor of assorted left and the candidate of the proper and the middle | EUROtoday

In Laval, the prefectural metropolis of Mayenne, the time for the marketing campaign has arrived for the outgoing mayor and his principal opponent. The numerous left however not included mayor Florian Bercault, whose need to run once more was an open secret, held his first assembly on Saturday January 31. The younger mayor of Laval – he had simply turned 30 when he was elected in June 2020 – mentioned he “more combative than in 2020”.

More recognized, definitely, too. Six years in the past, this graduate of Sciences Po and HEC, a former enterprise supervisor from Laval, was an unknown within the eyes of the residents. The former socialist mayor (2008-2012), former minister liable for agri-food (2012-2014) and deputy for Mayenne Guillaume Garot supported him and made him identified to the Laval inhabitants.

Six years later, nearly the complete left is in marching order behind the outgoing mayor. The French Communist Party, the Socialist Party, Place Publique, Les Ecologists, Génération.s, the Radical Left Party: six political teams have determined to line up behind Florian Bercault. A gathering “unprecedented from the first round of municipal elections in Laval”he assured throughout the presentation of his help to the press, at the start of December 2025. In 2020, the 2 left-wing lists, divided, arrived behind that of the varied middle candidate Didier Pillon within the first spherical.

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