How complicated it was to nominate candidates for the New Popular Front. While on Thursday, the tenors of the parties were gathered around the number of constituencies to be shared, then, the common program to be defined, rumors were rife, mainly in Gardanne, epicenter of the remainder of the left forces in a National Rally constituency. Out of 16 municipalities which make up the 10th, all placed him in the lead in the Europeans on Sunday. 51.71% in Plan-de-Cuques, nearly 48% in Allauch, 45% in Meyreuil, 42.29% in Gardanne.
At the time when the national discussions were continuing, the small local political world thought that the constituency could be devolved to the Ecologists. Freshly re-elected as a European deputy, Gréasquean Marina Mesure, the only left-wing personality now somewhat known, did not seem ready to face a perilous national election.
“There will be work”
For the PS, the name of Jean-Marc La Piana, not included, but also well established, leader of one of the two opposition groups DVG and EELV in Gardanne, came out of the hat for a while. To return there, the director of La Maison, a palliative care center, would have declined. Who for the Greens? The local group would have chosen François-Michel Lambert, former EELV deputy converted to Macronie elected in 2012 and 2017, now based in Gers. “In any case a known name who plowed the circo ground and was ready to go“, notes Laurent Deshaies, Gardanese municipal councilor and head of the local group of environmentalists.
