The legislative elections of 2024 had a direct consequence on municipal life in Caen. Joël Bruneau, elected mayor in 2014, re-elected in 2020 within the first spherical (50.79%), joined the National Assembly after the withdrawal of the outgoing, the Macronist Fabrice Le Vigoureux. Having develop into a deputy (Liberties, independents, abroad and territories) for the primary constituency of Calvados, Mr. Bruneau had left his mayor’s chair to his first deputy, Aristide Olivier, who’s working within the March municipal elections on the head of a various record from the best and middle, together with members of Renaissance, as in 2020.
In a metropolis which now exceeds 110,000 inhabitants, with a acquire of 4,000 individuals in 4 years, the younger mayor has managed to do effectively. “I grew up in this townsays Aristide Olivier. I always heard that Caen was a sleeping beauty. This is no longer true. Caen is a city where jobs are created. In 2025, Rouen and Le Havre lose some, Caen gains some. » Skillful on angry subjects, Aristide Olivier crossed out with a stroke of his pen a draft “commercial place built around a gourmet market” within the metropolis middle. A mission carried out at arm’s size by its predecessor and contested in an city space which suffers from an overdensity of purchasing malls on the outskirts.
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