US EditionFrench local elections: In Paris suburbs, LFI won the biggest prize, but made few gains
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A victory from the first round in Saint-Denis, a very notable score in Roubaix, thanks to good results in several communes, La France insoumise has made itself indispensable to its left-wing partners. Three days before the second round, Jean-Luc Mélenchon occupies the space. Alliances with the Ecologists and Socialists were established in preparation for the election next Sunday, despite the invectives and the insults exchanged, there is little.…
Saint-Denis, Bondy, Vitry, La Courneuve... The first round in the Paris suburbs on Sunday was marked by unsubstantiated victories in the communist and socialist left-wing bastions. The result of a recent strategy of local settlement and, sometimes, alliances.
Bally Bagayoko, leader of the LFI list (with the PCF) was elected in the first round of the municipal elections in Saint-Denis, with 50.77% of the votes; against 32.70% for outgoing mayor Mathieu Hanotin.
Since Sunday night, the fascisphere and several media have relayed false words lent to the unsubmissive and black elected one. He has since been the target of racist harassment, mirror of France of 2026 but has...
The journalist asked Bally Bagayoko why he called Saint-Denis a "city of the Blacks", words that the new mayor did not make
French local elections: In Paris suburbs, LFI won the biggest prize, but made few gains
La France Insoumise won Saint-Denis, the largest Paris suburb, in the first round. Yet, the result masks disappointing results in other working-class areas that the radical left has specifically targeted.
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