As the congress of the Association of Mayors of France opens its doors this Tuesday, November 19 at the Porte de Versailles, a study reveals the results of the media visibility of mayors and the 50 largest cities in France. Here is their ranking.
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As part of a partnership between Ouest-France and the Tagaday platform, it was measured over one year (from 1is November 2023 to October 31, 2024), the presence of the 50 largest municipalities in France and their mayors in 5,400 information programs broadcast by 410 television and radio channels, and in 3,000 written, printed and online press publications.
Who will come out on top? Which mayor was quoted the most in the media this year? It's a sort of Christmas present for the press officers who do their utmost to make the message of elected officials heard.
Even if, unsurprisingly, the mayors of villages or small towns are not mentioned. Better to be at the head of a metropolis, elected in one of the five largest cities in France and to have (or have had) national political responsibilities.
- 1: Edouard Philippe, mayor of Le Havre (Horizons)
- 2: Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris (PS)
- 3: Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice (Horizons)
- 4: Benoit Payan, mayor of Marseille (PS)
- 5: Martine Aubry, mayor of Lille (PS)
- 6: Johanna Rolland, mayor of Nantes (PS)
- 7: Grégory Doucet, mayor of Lyon (EELV – Les Écologists)
- 9 tied: Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan (RN)
- 9 tied: Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, mayor of Rouen (PS)
- 10: Eric Piolle, mayor of Grenoble (EELV)
If we talk about the mayor, it is mainly to talk about his city and the work that is carried out there. We must see in this ranking the result of a decade of very proactive policies carried out with the other mayors of the metropolis and municipal elected officials in terms of safety, health, economic attractiveness, employment and ecological transition.
Christian Estrosi, mayor (Horizons) of Nice.on France 3 Côte d'Azur this November 18.
July 18, 2024, Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) The mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi speaks to the press as he arrives at the site of a fire which broke out overnight in a residential building in a working-class neighborhood.
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Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice (5th city in France) and president of the Nice Côte d'Azur metropolis, comes in 3rd position. Benoît Payan, mayor of Marseille (2nd city in France) comes in 4th place.
We will also note the strong representation of socialist mayors: five mayors out of the first 10 in this ranking.
This study was carried out using 5,400 information programs (broadcast by 410 channels and TV/radio stations) and a selection of 3,000 written press publications (print and websites) between November 1, 2023 and November 1, 2023. November 2024.
The platform compared the results compared to the 1st edition of this barometer covering the previous year on the same dates, i.e. from November 1, 2022 to November 1, 2023 by the media monitoring platform and the daily Ouest-France.
A ranking which allows us to judge its popularity with the media as the 106th congress of mayors and intercommunity presidents opens at the Porte de Versailles in Paris.
Reading the results of this study, one may wonder why David Lisnard, the LR mayor of Cannes, is not in the ranking.
Response from the organization: “In fact, both rankings are based on the 50 most populous cities in France. David Lisnard, who actually has national positions as president of the Association of Mayors of France, does not appear in the ranking because his city is not among the 50 most populous in France (Cannes is 70th with 73,255 inhabitants ).
If David Lisnard's visibility had been measured, he would be very high and would rank in 4th position, just behind Christian Estrosi and ahead of Benoît Payan, with some 15,000 pieces of media content.
Dakota Communication news service for Tagaday.
This Tuesday, November 19, the mayors are gathered in combat mode, against a budgetary potion deemed too bitter in Paris, for their 106th congress. Anger does not subside despite the government's attempts to clear mines, given the extent of the budgetary restrictions requested from communities in 2025 to reduce the public deficit.
“If we want to avoid the next “yellow vests” wearing tricolor scarves, we will have to (…) trust the mayors”David Lisnard, president of the AMF and LR mayor of Cannes, insisted at the beginning of November, deploring a denigration of municipal action and a disintegration of resources.
Local elected officials regularly denounce disguised transfers of skills of the State without financial compensation or associated human resources, or the progressive abolition of local taxes which accentuates their dependence on the State.
Sixteen months before the next municipal elections, this congress is all the more scrutinized as resignations of elected officials have reached an unprecedented level according to David Lisnard, 30% more than the previous mandate according to the Cevipof research center. Some 2,400 mayors have resigned since 2020. Another barometer to take into account.
(with AFP)
