A fragile job to guide the principle far-right metropolis in France. In the checklist of cursed features on the National Front, mayor of the “showcase city” ranks excessive. After Jean-Marie Le Chevallier, surrounded by enterprise in Toulon (1995-2001), the administration of Fréjus (Var) triggered David Rachline (mayor since 2014) to be repudiated by his personal occasion.
At the helm of Perpignan and its 120,000 inhabitants for six years, Louis Aliot maybe stated to himself that not doing a lot remained the perfect assure of retaining the store window so as. The again room is the other way up, however the lepéniste supervisor is just not nervous, certain of his re-election. In the occasion of victory, his mandate couldn’t exceed a number of months: within the case of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front, the prosecution requested three years of ineligibility towards him.
Defeated in 2014, the previous collaborator of Jean-Marie Le Pen supplanted a breathless proper in 2020, succeeding within the alliance of the Lepenist base – white working lessons and repatriates from Algeria – and the liberal Perpignan bourgeoisie. He slipped with out obvious problem into the costume of the native notable, rejecting the excesses inherent in this system of the National Rally (RN), with the priority to not make folks speak about Perpignan past the bounds of the city space. An agglomeration within the fingers of Robert Vila (ex-Les Républicains), which deprives him of room for maneuver in key sectors – economic system, transport, city coverage, and many others. – and constitutes a welcome excuse when it comes time to take inventory.
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