The candidate ecologist at the city hall of Perpignan, Agnès Langevine, arrived in 3rd position at the 1st turn with 14.5 % of the vote, announced on Saturday that his withdrawal to stop the candidate of the national Gathering and a favourite of the election, Louis Aliot. At the head of a list EELV-PS, the vice-president of the regional council of Occitania had been moved by the honourable member RN Louis Aliot (35.6 %) and the mayor LR outbound, Jean-Marc Pujol (18.5 per cent). It is referred to in a statement forwarded to Agence France-Presse "a duty republican of public safety" to explain his decision.
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" I call all.your voters.users to use their vote to confine them permanently to the ambitions of the candidate of the national Gathering, and to vote for the list which it remains opposed ", she said in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse. "I'm afraid to see the Perpignais.es direct their anger and rage toward a choice mortal, the decline of the city, of the retreat into identity politics and the déconfinement of hatred ", added the ecologist, pointing out that his movement had tripled his score of 2014.
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Thursday, it is the candidate LREM Roman Grau (13 % in the 1st round) who had renounced, a "withdrawal republican" aimed also to prevent the party lepéniste to seize the town hall of this city of 120 000 inhabitants. Jean-Marc Pujol, an attorney for 71 years, has been a councillor since 1989 and has been mayor since 2009, when he had succeeded Jean-Paul Alduy. In 2014, Jean-Marc Pujol had beaten Louis Aliot in the second round with a good report of the vote after the withdrawal of the PS candidate.
