Mayor (varied proper) of Valognes, a city of seven,200 inhabitants within the coronary heart of the Cotentin peninsula, within the Manche, Jacques Coquelin is searching for a fourth time period on the head of an inventory that he describes as “multicolor”. The socialist Fabrice Rodriguez, candidate in opposition to Jacques Coquelin in 2014 and 2020, in addition to three elected officers from the minority, are this time forming an alliance with the mayor for the municipal elections of March 15 and 22.
The mayor of Valognes defends “a social and united Gaullism. I am a left-wing Gaullist as they used to say. My values lead me to work with people who do not have my opinions. I want a confrontation of ideas and I am not asking anyone to change parties to build together”. Candidate on the mayor’s listing, Jean-Louis Valentin, « insert Les Républicains [LR] till 2025 » and whose return to politics after having been founding president of the Cotentin city neighborhood, 180,000 inhabitants, from 2017 to 2020, additionally appreciates “this gathering on a program with people who retain their convictions”.
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