the multiplication of lists accentuates tensions | EUROtoday

The municipal marketing campaign is raging in Evreux. War of the rights, violent assaults and accusations on social networks and thru the press, division on the left and the acute proper, profusion of lists – 9 declared up to now… The substances for a Clochemerle with Normandy sauce are gathered within the Eure prefecture.

And it is on the precise that the knives are sharpest. “This is the dirtiest campaign I have participated in”mentioned Guy Lefrand (numerous proper) to France 3 Normandie initially of February – contacted by The Worldhe didn’t comply with up. The outgoing mayor and candidate for a 3rd time period is focusing on the one who’s introduced by the native press as one among his most severe opponents, Samuel Brigantino, on the head of a residents’ listing categorized as numerous right-wing.

“Guy Lefrand is the first to be aggressive. He claimed I was a convict. I had to explain that my criminal record was clean”squeaks this newcomer to politics. The hearth was already smoldering in November 2025, when Samuel Brigantino was ordered by the prefecture to take away a marketing campaign poster positioned on the entrance of his workplace and deemed out of order. If he gained his case within the administrative court docket, the challenger noticed it as a maneuver by the mayor. The latter, just like the prefect, denied it, however the tone of the marketing campaign was set.

At 62, Guy Lefrand, additionally president of the agglomeration, has been managing the fifth metropolis in Normandy (49,360 inhabitants) since 2014. An extended-time member of the Les Républicains (LR) celebration, which he left after Eric Ciotti’s alliance with the National Rally (RN), this educated emergency employee developed himself politically within the wake of two former ministers, Jean-Louis Debré and Bruno Le Maire.

At the tip of a political disaster which noticed his majority crack, after the sidelining of his first deputy, in December 2025, the councilor returns to the marketing campaign, with a revised listing. “We built equipment, brought back residents, created jobs”advances to France 3 the one who can now rely on the assist of the Renaissance and Horizons events.

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