Let Emmanuel Macron choose Mulhouse to denounce "Islamist separatism" at the very least annoyed the outgoing team. Mayor LR Michèle Lutz would have preferred to highlight urban renewal, with a city center that has been transformed. "Everything is not ideal, but thanks to the prevention policy, dialogue is possible and the situation calmed down ", wants to believe Jean Rottner, president LR of Grand Est, who represents himself as second to Michèle Lutz.
If there is little question of radicalization in the electoral campaign which is just beginning, security comes first among the concerns of voters, even before employment and housing.
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For a long time, however, the presence of strong communities of North African and Turkish origin has fueled the vote of the far right. It was in Mulhouse that the " republican front " was invented in 1995 to block the FN and save Jean-Marie Bockel, then a member of the PS. In the last Europeans, the RN list was close to that of En Marche !, ahead of
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