Some opponents nickname Nathalie Koenders “the heiress”. Their manner of recalling that the outgoing socialist mayor of Dijon, 48, accessed this chair by the desire of her predecessor, François Rebsamen, elected and re-elected since 2001. This switch, carried out on November 25, 2024, aimed to consolidate the bottom of the previous canoe-kayak champion, municipal councilor since 2008, promoted to first deputy in 2014, earlier than the election of the fifteenth and March 22. In sixth place on M’s listingme Koenders, far sufficient away however not too far to substantiate this “emancipation”, Mr. Rebsamen has not given up, nevertheless. He is getting ready his re-election as president of Dijon Métropole with the hope, within the occasion of an alignment of the planets, of later regaining his seat as senator of Côte-d’Or.
This handover for the good thing about the manager on secondment from the Ministry of Sports and Youth doesn’t forestall its historic right-wing rival from cultivating optimism. Emmanuel Bichot, 57, senior advisor on the Court of Auditors, in opposition to Mr. Rebsamen since 2014 along with his political celebration, Agir pour Dijon, believes the time for change has come on the finish of 1 / 4 of a century of administration that he continues to castigate. At the top of a coalition bringing collectively Les Républicains, Le Nouveau Center, UDI, Horizons and his personal celebration, he acquired the assist, “unsolicited”he insists each time, of Reconquest!, the celebration of Eric Zemmour. It is true that the hostility between far-right teams in Burgundy-Franche-Comté underlies many techniques.
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