the left leaves divided in a metropolis within the arms of the socialists since 1955 | EUROtoday

He needed to keep away from it, however, in Lille, the struggle of the left will happen. Arnaud Deslandes, the socialist successor since April 2025 of Martine Aubry, for a time, cherished the hope of a union with the environmentalists, and even with the “rebellious”. Elected mayor of Lille following the resignation of the girl who held the belfry for 24 years, Arnaud Deslandes was rapidly confronted with native actuality: Stéphane Baly, the chief of the environmentalists, desires to take his revenge – crushed by solely 227 votes in 2020, he at all times refused to listen to a few frequent record within the first spherical.

This teacher-researcher has the benefit of getting been invested very early with a view to return to the battle. From November 2024, he posed as a candidate and combed Lille terrain that he already is aware of nicely. While environmentalists sat alongside the Aubry staff through the 2014-2020 mandate, tensions gathered and crystallized across the venture to develop the Saint-Sauveur wasteland, a former SNCF station on the sting of the town middle the place Martine Aubry needed to create a brand new district. Environmentalists denounced a “concreteization” and defended the concept of ​​a big city park, which can seal the rupture. The union expensive to Pierre Mauroy, the socialist mayor from 1973 to 2001, which had at all times prevailed till then, is not a cardinal worth in Lille since 2020.

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