The municipal golden age of the French Communist Party (PCF) is lengthy gone. But it nonetheless retains some historic bastions, reminiscent of its maritime employee stronghold of Dieppe (Seine-Maritime). Apart from a right-wing parenthesis from 2001 to 2008, the “city of four ports” has been flying the pink flag for fifty-five years. And if it’s not essentially the most populous communist city in Seine-Maritime (29,000 inhabitants), barely forward of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, it stays, by its geographical location and the significance of its fishing port, essentially the most emblematic.
Suffice it to say {that a} defeat for Nicolas Langlois within the subsequent municipal elections would create a shock. The outgoing PCF mayor, looking for a second time period, however desires to be cautious: “An election is respectable. As long as the ballots are not counted…” This 42-year-old customs officer by coaching took over from his mentor, the previous mayor and PCF deputy of Seine-Maritime Sébastien Jumel, in 2017, throughout his mandate. Elected on his behalf within the first spherical in 2020, he’s heading again into the marketing campaign at the moment on the head of a unified left-wing record. The Ecologists and La France insoumise (LFI), built-in into its majority, seem once more at its facet.
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