"Crazy". "Mad about". "Eco-Marxists". "Intellectual terrorists". "Left Fachos" ... don't throw it away. It is with these words without nuances that the boss of the municipal opposition in Lille, the various right Thierry Pauchet calls to block environmentalists in the second round of the municipal elections ... and therefore to vote for the outgoing mayor Martine Aubry.
"It is a vote of reason. What we especially do not want is the victory of the Greens, "said Thierry Pauchet Thursday at a press conference, which was notably attended by France 3.
Martine Aubry, candidate for a fourth term, came out on top in the first round with 29.8% of the vote. But it has not concluded any alliance with its former environmental allies led by Stéphane Baly and who collected 24.5% on March 15. She will therefore face them in a triangular in which she will also be opposed to her former chief of staff, the candidate LREM Violette Spillebout (17%).
"The cartoonish vision" of the Greens
An Ifop poll for La Voix du Nord - Nord Eclair published on June 15 shows that the game will be very close. According to this survey of 609 people, Martine Aubry would come out on top with 39% of the voting intentions, but she would be closely followed by the EELV candidate Stéphane Baly, credited with 37%. The LREM candidate would collect 24%.
The right, led by Marc-Philippe Daubresse, was swept in the first round with 8.24%. The latter has so far given no voting instructions for the second round.
Thierry Pauchet is not the only centrist or right-wing candidate who used violent words to block environmentalists. In other cities, the terms "green peril" are used. This is particularly the case in Lyon where EELV is favored to delight the town hall: the outgoing Gérard Collomb, used this expression to justify his alliance with the right.
PS Mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, has not yet commented on Thierry Pauchet's call to vote for her. But in an interview with Le Point, she made a point of stressing that there could not be an “ecological transition without social justice”.
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She regrets that there was no agreement between her list and that of the Greens and denounces their "rather caricatured vision of society and are only interested in people who are doing well".
