In progress
Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse… The day after the primary spherical of the 2026 municipal elections, suspense stays over the result of the vote in a number of French cities. The heads of the record have till Tuesday night to determine whether or not they stay, merge or withdraw for the second spherical. Follow the primary day of negotiations stay.
Marine Tondelier considers Payan and Grégoire’s technique of refusing the alliance with LFI dangerous
The head of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier judged the technique of Benoît Payan in Marseille and Emmanuel Grégoire in Paris to exclude any alliance with LFI as “risky” and strongly criticized these refusing it on precept, reminiscent of Raphaël Glucksmann and François Hollande who wish to “be the kings of the cemetery of the left”.
The choices of Benoît Payan and Emmanuel Grégoire, “I find them risky because if everyone follows through on what they say (…) and it doesn’t work, in the end, it has a cost for the inhabitants of these cities who needed left-wing and environmentalist policies”, she mentioned on franceinfo.
She, nonetheless, deplored that the 2 LFI candidates Sophia Chikirou and Sébastien Delogu had made issues tough by making socialist candidates supported by environmentalists “their main enemy” in the course of the marketing campaign.
Marseille: Benoît Payan calls to “come together” round his record in opposition to “the brown wave”
The outgoing left-wing mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan known as on Sunday night to “come together around (his coalition) the Marseille Spring” within the face of “the brown wave” of the National Rally.
Given on the high of the estimates nearly tied or with a couple of factors forward of his RN rival Franck Allisio, Benoît Payan closed the door to any alliance with LFI, affirming that “there is no question of making the slightest fuss with anyone”.
At the top of the primary spherical, Benoît Payan (36.69%) and Franck Allisio (35.02%) are nicely forward, nicely forward of the candidate of the proper and heart Martine Vassal (12.41%) and forward of the candidate of La France insoumise Sébastien Delogu (11.94%).
Marseille: Sébastien Delogu (LFI) denounces the “irresponsible position” of outgoing mayor Benoît Payan
The LFI candidate in Marseille Sébastien Delogu, largely left behind within the first spherical of the municipal elections however who can maintain his personal within the second, denounced the “irresponsible position” of the outgoing mayor Benoît Payan who rejected his “outstretched hand” for an alliance in opposition to the National Rally.
“It is an irresponsible position which could give the keys to Marseille to the National Rally. We call on the people of Marseille to mobilize massively to create the conditions for an anti-fascist front to defeat the National Rally,” he wrote on X.
Time for main maneuvers in a number of main cities in preparation for the second spherical
Sunday’s vote gave rise to heterogeneous conditions in a number of giant French cities. Today and tomorrow promise to be full of life concerning the negotiations between the events with a view to the second spherical – mergers of lists, alliances, withdrawals or retentions, and so on…
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Welcome to this stay devoted to monitoring the French municipal elections the day after the primary spherical.
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