In Nancy, the municipal elections of March 15 and 22 promise to be extra open than in 2020. The outgoing socialist mayor, Mathieu Klein, who can also be president of the Métropole du Grand Nancy and its 258,000 inhabitants, hopes to maintain his seats.
Six years in the past, his victory over Laurent Hénart, then president of the Radical Party, marked a break with seventy-four years of administration of the appropriate and the middle. This time the socialist is advancing into the marketing campaign with a renewed record during which – and this was a shock – the ecologist Laurent Watrin, who allowed him to win within the second spherical due to his rallying, doesn’t seem. The latter was excluded from the left union record by his personal get together, The Ecologists.
“I heard that people were saying about me that I was not unanimous, and that I was a little stiff”says Mr. Watrin. The former journalist from France Bleu Nancy, who has put his title as a sophrologist, will due to this fact go into the marketing campaign on the head of a listing “independent and citizen”.
Mathieu Klein, for his half, hopes to reconnect with the dynamic which allowed the left, within the legislative elections of 2024, to win over all the Nancy metropolitan space. He is on the head of a transpartisan record during which a citizen collective participates. Without La France insoumise (LFI), nonetheless, within the first spherical at the least, “as a result of they’ve a political line which isn’t the [s]ienne »he signifies.
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