He did not see defeat coming.
Six months ago, Alain Juppé's successor in Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian, at the helm of the city for 18 months, let himself be
"a little intoxicated"
by an Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll for
Sud-Ouest
in the home stretch. in the countryside.
He should win with a 9-point lead… But in politics, it's well known, nothing ever goes as planned.
On the evening of the second round of municipal elections, the city, held by the right for 73 years, fell into the camp of environmentalists allied to the left, with the election of Pierre Hurmic.
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Municipal: in Bordeaux, Hurmic signs the end of a "cycle"
A revolution in the city of Jacques Chaban-Delmas then Alain Juppé.
Appointed to the Constitutional Council, the former Prime Minister had left the city to this very close, Finance Assistant, in March 2019. The evening of the defeat, the two men learned the results in this office which they both occupied .
Moved to see the story end.
"I have a lot of sadness, I have no other word to say"
, confides that evening
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