In Bordeaux, tensions between macronists and republicans for the municipal elections 2026 | EUROtoday

In Bordeaux, tensions between macronists and republicans for the municipal elections 2026
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Gabriel Attal (Center), president of the parliamentary group together for the Republic, and the former French Minister of Public Accounts Thomas Cazenave (right), in Bordeaux, February 14, 2025.

In Bordeaux, one 12 months earlier than the deadline of the municipal elections, the Renaissance deputy Thomas Cazenave needs to speed up the motion. If he has by no means hidden his ambitions for the town, the elected official nonetheless leaves doubt in regards to the formalization of his candidacy. But his phrases, in an interview given to the every day South WestTuesday, February 18, problem. “Today, I am ready and I fully engage in this campaign. One year from the municipal elections, there is an urgency to consult the Bordeaux, to build a project and put all our energies in the Union ”advance the Bordeaux deputy on the query of municipal elections.

Four days earlier, Gabriel Attal, visiting Bordeaux, launched, in the course of the aisles of the Capuchin market, that Thomas Cazenave “Would make a very good mayor of Bordeaux” In response to the query raised by a journalist. The former Minister of Public Accounts, by his aspect, smiles from the declaration of the chief of Renaissance. “Be a little patient”he argues.

Words that didn’t fail to react the Bordeaux department of the Les Républicains (LR) celebration. In a press release despatched on February 19, phrases are bitter in opposition to Thomas Cazenave. “The launch of the municipal campaign for a few days and, [mardi] morning, in the newspaper South Westthe declaration of candidacy of Thomas Cazenave seem to us premature and do not respect in our eyes the minimum time of mourning. »» That of Nicolas Florian, died brutally on January 26, former mayor of Bordeaux, president of the Bordeaux Ensemble association, a municipal opposition group made up of eleven eleven elected republicans and modem.

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