The label of favourite connected to him doesn’t swimsuit Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol. “I think there is an expectation of solidity and stability. Afterwards, an election is won during the campaign”, rephrases the 48-year-old socialist, who waited firstly of January to announce his want to run for a second time period on the city corridor of Rouen in addition to on the Rouen-Normandie Metropolis. An utility conditioned, assures this Mining engineer, on current optimistic medical examinations, he who had revealed to be affected by bladder most cancers in 2024.
Favorite, actually? Certainly, the one publicized survey within the Normandy capital, carried out in June 2025 by Toluna-Harris Interactive, is somewhat dated. The reality stays that the previous Fabiusian was properly forward of voting intentions within the first spherical… supplied he made a typical record on the left.
This alliance, essential and unprecedented in Rouen since 2008, lastly took form firstly of January with the announcement of the rallying of the Ecologists and the Communist Party, answerable for town alongside the PS since 2020. Alliance born at the price of intense negotiations and sure compromises, such because the precedence given to the growth of the Robert-Diochon soccer stadium, in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime), owned by the stadium, fairly than to the development of a brand new enclosure. In 2020, the eco-communist duo, who began alone within the first spherical and got here second, joined Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol within the second, to win collectively fingers down.
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