Jean-Luc Mélenchon's movement intends to make a place for municipalities in 2026 for the 10th anniversary of his movement. A large victory would give a launch ramp to the presidential election in 2027 and would make it possible to settle accounts with the socialists.
An election in the form of a test balloon. The rebellious deputy Louis Boyard presents himself this Sunday, January 26 in the first round of the partial municipal elections in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, in Val-de-Marne. This anticipated ballot has the value of a test for rebellious France which now intends to win several major cities in March 2025.
“Going to the municipal elections is part of our growth strategy. Our goal is to have a large wave of cities that become rebellious,” said deputy François Piquemal, candidate for Toulouse, with BFMTV.com.
Model environmentalists
The maneuver has something to surprise for a party that has always disinterested local elections. The movement thus holds only a very small handful of municipalities, in accordance with the will of Jean-Luc Mélenchon which he had explained in a blog note in 2020, between the desire to avoid the emergence of local barons, likely to Shadow him, and obsession with the presidential election.
But since the last municipal elections, the atmosphere has changed. It must be said that the success of environmentalists for this ballot gave ideas to LFI, from a possible victory to Lille via Montpellier, Marseille, Roubaix, Brest, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Bobigny …
“The ecolos are almost 14% to the Europeans in 2019 and the next year, it is the jackpot with their victory in Lyon, Grenoble and Bordeaux. Of course, that opens appetite,” says an rebellious lieutenant.
“Make you want for the future”
The party has several objectives by embarking on the battle of the municipal elections, starting with the desire to prove itself on a daily basis on the ground. What hope that a year later, for the presidential election, the voters support the very likely candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Our subject is to show that we know how to change the lives of people where they live by showing them what it looks like a mayor who seeks to win social victories and to make you want for the future,” smiles the deputy Hadrien Clouet.
“It must be able to see us in every election, that we stay in a corner of their heads. It is really important when we try to mobilize those who abstain but who vote for us when they do it”, subtitle a parliamentary collaborator.
“Weariness” of the assembly
What also allow victorious mayors to launch large campaigns in the municipalities to encourage registration on the electoral lists. Among the territories where people are the least registered, we find those where LFI already makes excellent scores, whether in Seine-Saint-Denis, Guadeloupe, Martinique or the Rhône.
In the meantime, the movement is working on a platform that would allow each candidate to draw ideas to do their program.
Among these, we find for example the obligation to install public toilets in all municipalities of more than 2,500 inhabitants, the free school canteen, the collection of garbage by civil servants of the municipality and no longer by private companies , the creation of a public service for funeral directors …
“We can have weariness when we have been in opposition since 2017. We work a lot with the impression that it is not used for much. Becoming mayor also gives meaning”, recognizes a deputy, frustrated by parliamentary life .
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“All those who have notbacked are right to have concern”
Without hesitation, however, to nationalize local elections. Louis Boyard, for example, already promised that in the event of a victory, his commune “will commit for Palestine in 2025”.
But the battle of the municipal elections also covers a much more prosaic issue: to defeat the socialists who hold almost a third of cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants and half of the municipalities with more than 30,000 inhabitants.
“It is certain that all those who have notbacked and who took the form of the seats of the municipal councils are right to have concern,” claws the deputy Aurélien Le Coq, targeting the PS mayors.
The question is on everyone's lips on the left: what might look like future rebellious lists against the backdrop of very strong tensions with the socialists after their decision not to censor François Bayrou mid-January?
“They will prefer to make us lose”
Several scenarios are on the table, a union of the left which would resemble the new popular front of the Assembly where the head of the list could be socialist, LFI or ecologist depending on local forces to lists 100% rebellious in passing through citizen lists which would count LFI candidates.
“There are places where it will be very natural that it is an LFI list head,” warns Aurélien Le Coq already by citing the case of Lille, owned by the socialists since 1955. What give cold sweats to the party pink.
“When it will be won, they will want to go there in their own name and we will have to crash, no matter whether we are an outgoing mayor or not,” already worries a socialist senator.
“And if it can be played out much, they will prefer to make us lose by presenting themselves alone that by unionizing with us, even if the town passes to the right”, still deals this former mayor.
Continue to “operate the NFP”
“All the cities where the NFP works, we want it to continue,” trivializes the Hadrien Clouet deputy, citing the case of towers where an ecological mayor was elected alongside socialists and communists in 2020.
“When we see how it goes to Villeneuve Saint-Georges, it worries us,” said a communist deputy.
In this commune, two left lists compete with that led by an elected communist elected official, very established, around an alliance with the PS and the environmentalists. On the other, we find LFI, who has made great scores there in recent years and has preferred to go alone.
“What will happen in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges will be part of the story that is writing LFI in the municipal elections,” said Louis Boyard on Thursday during his end-of-campaign meeting.
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