" At the Bordeaux town hall, I can tell you that on the evening of the first round, it was panic on board, " laughed Pierre Hurmic, guest of the "Talk-Le Figaro" Monday. Neck and neck with the outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian the evening of March 15, the environmental candidate narrowly missed the first step of the podium, while the gap was played less than a hundred votes between the two men, credited with 34.55% and 34.38%. Historical score too, since for seven decades the Bordeaux people have always voted for a right-wing candidate from the first round. The candidate Green recalls that Alain Juppé had been elected with 61% of the votes in 2014. " When they saw that they were in serious difficulty , they put the package ", taunts Hurmic.
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A merger agreement was made " hastily and against all odds " between the heir of Alain Juppe and majority candidate Thomas Cazenave, who came in third position with 12.69%. On this point, a bit annoyed, Pierre Hurmic recalls that the Walker had had words " extremely hard and peremptory " against the outgoing mayor. This is why he insists on the inconsistency of this union of devices, in terms of convictions, values and projects for Bordeaux. " There has been a national agreement between LREM and LR to save right-wing mayors in big cities that were threatened by environmental coalitions, " he denounces. " It is a very Jacobin agreement ," insists the candidate.
However, he remains optimistic, convinced that in the Girondins, " this old concept of playing politics " is not popular with voters. Contacted by his opponents to join this union of genres, the ecologist first believed in " a joke ": " Nicolas Florian, knowing that I fight his ideas, did not dare to call me , but he sent Thomas Cazenave, who was the more presentable of the two, "quips Hurmic. He intends to be very clear about the real competition that is playing out in Bordeaux, between two very distinct projects: "The conservative project of Nicolas Florian and the ecological transition project" carried by his list "Bordeaux Respire".
The LR-LREM merger now weighs around 50% of the vote. How does the ecologist intend to impose himself on June 28? If he sweeps an accounting vision of the ballot, he intends to rally to his cause many LREM and LR voters, " extremely disappointed by this political cowardice ", recalling that the candidate Walker presented himself as " the alternative to Nicolas Florian " and that certain “ anti-macronist ” Bordeaux LRs do not live this impromptu alliance badly. It will also count on the vote " very protest " for the anti-capitalist candidate Philippe Poutou, credited with 11% in the first round.