If he’s an elected official who can not afford to lose the municipal elections of March 2026, it’s Edouard Philippe. The mayor (Horizons) of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) introduced it in September 2024: he’s a candidate for his re-election and he’s additionally within the presidential election of 2027. Difficult to think about that he can journey on the first impediment with out compromising the crossing of the second.
For the previous Prime Minister (2017-2020) of Emmanuel Macron, mayor of Le Havre since 2010, the state of affairs seems random: he’s an elected proper in a metropolis which was lengthy managed by the Communists, who votes increasingly on the left within the presidential election and strongly for the acute proper to the Europeans. As for the municipal elections, Edouard Philippe was elected within the first spherical in 2014 (with 52.04 % of the votes). It was solely within the second in 2020 (58.83 %), having misplaced 1,500 votes in six years.
One aspect may, furthermore, weigh within the marketing campaign: the nationwide monetary prosecutor’s workplace opened a preliminary investigation in December 2023 of the heads of “illegal taking of interests, embezzlement of public funds, favoritism and moral harassment” which goals Edouard Philippe, his assistant and group councilor of the metropolis, Stéphanie de Bazelaire, in addition to the director common of the companies of the city group, Claire-Sophie Tasias. In query: a suspicion of bypassing public procurement guidelines. “We have respected the rules”had reacted Edouard Philippe to BFM-TV, in 2024, after a search.
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