in Saint-Denis, the “rebels” and the communists unite to dethrone the PS | EUROtoday

This time, there isn’t a query of falling once more into the entice of division which had precipitated the autumn of the French Communist Party (PCF), on the head of Saint-Denis between 1944 and 2020. Having left in dispersed order in the course of the municipal elections of 2020, La France insoumise (LFI) and the communists introduced, in a press launch dated Wednesday December 3, 2025, that they’ll type a united entrance behind the “rebellion” of 52 years previous, Bally Bagayoko. Associated with “Seine-Saint-Denis at the heart”, the citizen motion co-founded by the LFI deputy of the division, Aly Diouara, the record will carry a “disruptive project” to attempt to wrest the city corridor from the socialists on March 15 and 22, 2026.

For his half, the present councilor, Mathieu Hanotin (Socialist Party, PS), formalized his intention to run for a second time period on November 21 by praising there “rediscovered pride” to dwell within the municipality. The 47-year-old former socialist deputy had taken benefit of the divisions of the previous majority to place an finish to many years of communist hegemony, by defeating the outgoing, Laurent Russer, with 59.04% of the votes.

The fall of the PCF, after seventy-six years in workplace, marked the top of a founding political reign within the historical past of the occasion. Land of experimentation “municipal communism”Saint-Denis has notably served as a springboard for a number of nationwide leaders, together with the present chief of the communist deputies, Stéphane Peu, member of the municipal council since 1995, and Patrick Braouezec, mayor between 1991 and 2004, and beforehand deputy for a similar constituency from 1993 to 2012. Mathieu Hanotin took his seat as deputy in 2012, earlier than failing to 181 votes near the municipal elections two years later.

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