In Clermont-Ferrand, in 2025, a dramatic sequence of murders linked to drug trafficking brought about discuss past native borders. In September, Bruno Retailleau, then Minister of the Interior, got here in individual to announce to the inhabitants of the Puy-de-Dôme prefecture, beneficiaries of the “Enhanced Security Cities” system, extra assets for “to make war” to drug trafficking.
Enough to make insecurity one of many central themes of municipal elections on this metropolis on the left since 1919, unaccustomed to this degree of violence. The candidate of the National Rally (RN) Antoine Darbois, retired, allied to the Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR), thus factors out the “laxity” of the outgoing socialist mayor, Olivier Bianchi, who’s looking for a 3rd time period. “The explosion of insecurity” justifies in his eyes growing the variety of municipal police and arming them, since they need to not “just ensure tranquility but also security”.
If, in 2020, the RN listing led by Anne Biscos had not reached the second spherical, the scores of the far proper in 2024 within the European elections (19.9% for the RN which got here first and 4% for Reconquest!) and within the legislative elections of June and July 2024 (23.7% for the RN within the first spherical) give hope for one more end result for Antoine Darbois. Little identified in Clermont-Ferrand, he insists on convincing his political expertise from 2014 to 2020 in Gerzat, as a municipal elected official within the majority, on the time working for Les Républicains (LR).
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