Martine Aubry has been working on three missions for several weeks. The former minister and former patron of the Socialist Party continues to manage Lille affairs from the mayor's chair that she has occupied since 2001, organizes the cordon cordon around the coronavirus - "a task which now takes me 3 hours a day", she confides - and directs her fourth campaign for the municipal elections… A campaign carried out at full speed, despite the polls that propel her ahead of all her opponents with more than 30% of the voting intentions.
“I certainly do not consider myself already elected, insists the candidate at the approach of the first round of March 15. I see the push of the Greens and I wonder about the participation rate next Sunday, especially in the most popular areas of the city. "
Tuesday, March 10, Martine Aubry had responded to a neighborhood committee meeting that evening, in Saint-Maurice-Pellevoisin, in the northeast of Lille (North). "She is a very accessible person," admits Sylvie, a nurse in her forties who admits that she does not systematically vote for the outgoing municipal team. Martine Aubry, “parachuted” from the capital in 1995 when she was appointed deputy mayor by Pierre Mauroy, was able to be accepted by the “Ch'tis” of the city at the belfry, to be respected, and even to be loved. An emotional bond a priori more complicated to weave for the one whose image of "iron lady" on the national political scene was likely to hamper the local career.
Security, the cornerstone of its policy
In front of a few dozen participants, Aubry combines, with humor and pugnacity, the expertise of the “outgoing” and the combativeness of the candidate. This may come as a surprise, but it makes security a center line of its policy, with the inclusion on its list of a former departmental director of the police.
Priding itself on having made ecology and social rhyme, it insists on the enhancement of the six working-class districts, priority of its mandates, and on the return of the middle classes. “Lille is a real little company. It is through the cities that we will be able to provide substantive answers to national problems, "insists the former minister who defends her record, touts her program for the next six years and ... gives blows.
Its main targets? The Greens and La République en Marche, two lists led by former "friends" ... Stéphane Baly, head of the ecologists, has been in the municipal team alongside the mayor for six years. "Some want to pretend that you have to be born an ecologist to be an ecologist! "Exclaims the one who puts forward her" sustainable ecology "districts, her traffic plan" on which the Greens shone by their absence ", and her proactive policy of housing construction". "Concretization", for the Greens. "Progress towards more social mix", for the Aubry team.
Uppercuts against Macron
Violette Spillebout had been his chief of staff before being invested by the Macron party. Without naming her opponent, Martine Aubry prefers to let go of her uppercuts against ... President Emmanuel Macron. "We are going to need the Senate to fight against pension reform," ignites the outgoing mayor before Patrick Kanner and Martine Filleul, the two socialist senators from the North who came to support her. "This is an unfair project that could have been financed with the 7 billion euros from the ISF and the flat tax!" "Proclaims the candidate PS who has even managed to be appreciated by some of her opponents on the right. Until Xavier Bertrand, the president of the Hauts-de-France region, elected in 2015 in front of Marine Le Pen, thanks to the voices of the left…
National politics is definitely never far away with Martine Aubry who rejects any idea of returning to the national political struggle. But "not in the debate", she nuances ...
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From March 15, find the results of the municipal elections in Lille on the Parisian website.