Published on June 13, 2024 at 06:45. / Modified on June 13, 2024 at 3:10 p.m.
In politics, perseverance sometimes pays off. This could be the case with Natacha Buffet-Desfayes, who will represent the PLR in the Geneva mayoral elections in spring 2025. At 41, the MP and secondary school teacher has been waiting for this moment for a long time, having already aimed for executive in 2015 and attempted to become president of the cantonal party in 2019. Will the timing also benefit his party, which hopes to make its return to the Administrative Council after twelve years of absence?
With her status as a civil servant – rather atypical in the PLR – and her more centrist profile than that of her competitor Pierre de Boccard, Natacha Buffet-Desfayes was seen as the ideal candidate to attack the town hall, a left-wing bastion where only The Center has so far managed to find a place for itself. During the General Assembly of the city section of Geneva on May 29, it obtained 50 votes against 21.
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