The city is not enough for him. On the strength of his unprecedented victory in Bordeaux, the new environmental mayor of the city of Gironde intends to capitalize on the “ green ” dynamic : he would see himself at the head of the metropolis. The former lawyer is multiplying the calls for this purpose. " We are currently discussing with our left partners to see how this metropolis can be administered ," he said on Public Senate Friday morning.
Pierre Hurmic then said he was " open to all scenarios " . " But I will fight for the historic vote, which toppled Bordeaux, to have meaning at the level of the metropolis, " he firmly affirmed. Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Alain Juppé .... Before Pierre Hurmic's victory, it had been 73 years since the mayor of Bordeaux was held by right-wing mayors, each elected in the first round. The environmental candidate, who spent 25 years in the municipal opposition, snatched the city from the outgoing mayor and foal of Alain Juppe, Nicolas Florian. "Bordeaux Respire", the EELV list allied to the left, won 46.48% of the votes in the second round of the municipal elections, against 44.12% for that of Nicolas Florian.
Impossible to escape the "co-management" to which he was opposed during the campaign
In the metropolis, the hitherto majority group, " Community of the future ", brought together elected officials from the right, from the center and "without labels" around its president Les Républicains, Patrick Bobet. This majority is now questioned with the number of seats occupied by the cities that switched to the left on June 28. With 17 municipalities in the metropolis now in the hands of the left or the Greens, and 11 acquired on the right or in the center, a shift in political coloring could occur.
Pierre Hurmic remains in charge of finding an agreement, or an alliance with the Socialist Party which is the second political force in the metropolis with 32 seats, behind the 38 seats of LR but before the 29 of the Greens. In favorable waivers from a purely arithmetic point of view, the new mayor of Bordeaux will have to lie one of his campaign arguments: he has not stopped shooting red bullets on the principle of " co-management ". Which is not the opinion of some socialist mayors. There is still a long way to go to see him get elected by his peers on July 17.