This is one of the policy lessons that can be drawn from the first round of municipal elections : the mechanisms of patronage, including community and religious, have proved perfectly operational for mayors candidates to their own succession.
In a systematic way, their re-election was made for a forbearance, which greatly exceeded the national average, according to what we explained in this little guide for the perfect clientship. Four months later, each principle is true.
Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis)Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI), in which Eve Szeftel décortiquait patronage without complex in his book, The Mayor and the barbarians (Albin Michel), has ceded his seat to his wife, Aude Lagarde, who was elected in the first round with 65 % of the vote (or 6 990 votes). A score in appearance, comfortable for this city of 70,000 residents, where only 35 604 inhabitants are registered on the electoral lists... so It has been enough that 10 % of people travel to the municipal official is designated.
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Denain (Nord)The candidate, socialist Anne-Lise Dufour-Tonini (PS), which we had pointed out the friendships concerned with the religious leaders was re-elected in the first round, with 57 % of votes (3 of 214 votes). In this city of 20 000 inhabitants, only 11 545 inhabitants are registered on the electoral lists. It will therefore be sufficient that 16 % of people travel to the municipal official is re-elected. Note that the list of the mayor the outgoing and the RN were given the elbow-to-elbow before the election.
Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis)In this city regularly cited as an example of "frérisme city" by researchers on the subject, mayor Jean-François Asensi (ex-PCF) has been re-elected in the first round with 75 % of the votes (4 728 votes). In this city of 36 000 inhabitants, only 20 780 inhabitants are registered on the electoral lists. It will therefore be sufficient that 13 % of people travel to the municipal official is re-elected. "When there was the attack of Christchurch, the mayor of Tremblay-en-France has put the flags at half-mast, is hoisted the palestinian flag and drafted a statement of solidarity," says the academic, who recalls that many cities do not hesitate to support the palestinian cause and for purely clientelist.
Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)Bruno Beschizza (LR), which does not hesitate to commit public money to the benefit of associations, muslim religious conservative, was re-elected with 59,33 % of the vote, or 8 384 votes. In this city of 85, 500 inhabitants, only 44 739 inhabitants are registered on the electoral lists. It will be thus enough that 9.8 % of people travel to the municipal official is re-elected.
The current mayor Philippe Bouyssou (PCF) arrived very well ahead with 48,65 % of votes (5 570 votes), out of 153 votes in a re-election in the first round. In this city of 62 000 inhabitants, only 28 888 inhabitants are registered on the electoral lists. The 9 % of the people who moved on the day of the election will not have been sufficient to be re-elected in the first round. Note that the mayor-candidate to be in the third position of its list an activist décolonial notoriously antirépublicain, has organized the merger of the lists of the left for the second round. It has conditioned the rallying of militants from France insubordinate to the exclusion without appeal, Mourad Tagzout, candidate BIA and alternate of the member Mathilde Panot, known for its positions on the secular and republican. France insubordinate has refused to enter into this logic.
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