Departmental The mayor of Perpignan won 44.07% of the vote. The second round will take place on December 4
Louis Aliot in Cap d’Agde, September 16, 2022. — Alain ROBERT/SIPA
The voters of the canton of Perpignan-Canohès placed, on Sunday, Louis Aliot well ahead of the other candidates. The RN mayor of Perpignan has arrived. leading the first round of this partial departmental election in the Pyrenees-Orientales. The socialist outgoing councilor is even eliminated.
Collecting 44.07% of the votes cast, the tenor of the National Rally and his buddy Carla Muti, municipal councilor at Canohès, outstripped the diverse right duo of Jean-Louis Chambon and Florence Micolau (27.63%). They will face off in the second round on December 4.
Mathias Blanc calls “à vote Chambon”
With 26.36% of the vote, the outgoing departmental adviser, Mathias Blanc (PS), is eliminated. to the outcome of a ballot in which attendance rose to only 21.63%. “I’s calling vote Chambon to beat Aliot,” this 39-year-old lawyer, after learning of his elimination for 43 votes.
In May 2021, in this 5th canton of Perpignan-Canohès, the PS pair had won. in the second round with 51 % of the vote, but less than a hundred more than that of the RN (49 %). The election, however, was invalidated by the Council of State due to the ineligibility of the of the candidate of Marine Le Pen’s party, a former customs official.
The left retains control of the department
During this first ballot, the right-wing duo, already led by Jean-Louis Chambon, mayor of Canohès, had been eliminated with one vote in the first round by his socialist opponents Mathias Blanc and Françoise Chatard, the two pairs totaling just under 24 % of the vote, behind the 36 % of the RN.
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Le Rassemblement national now directed by Jordan Bardella, who took over the presidency by beating Louis Aliot at the beginning of November, will try on Sunday to strengthen his anchorage in a department of which he holds the main city, as well as the four seats of deputy ; since the June legislative elections. On the other hand, despite the defeat of the outgoing councillor, socialists and communists will retain control of the departmental assembly.