Ali Rabeh, a close friend of the Génération.s movement of Benoît Hamon, was re-elected this Sunday mayor of Trappes, in the Yvelines, in the first round of a by-election under tension, reorganized after the cancellation of the 2020 ballot.
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Tonight, the Trappists have chosen to re-elect Ali Rabeh
", recognized this Sunday evening, before final results, his opponent Othman Nasrou, a close friend of Valérie Pécresse (Free!) At the head of an unusual alliance formed with former mayor PS Guy Malandrin. On Twitter, Ali Rabeh welcomed this Sunday evening a victory "
against a Zemmourized and patronage right
" and with "
a participation up six points compared to 2020,
" which was 34.1%. “
What pride, thank you to the Trappists!
", He added, assuring, with still partial results, to have won"
with at least 57% of the votes.
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We have obviously not succeeded in convincing that a Republican alternative was possible
", regretted Othman Nasrou in his press release published on Twitter, "
nor to fully explain the double game of Ali Rabeh or the danger of the methods he uses
”.
The election of Ali Rabeh by 161 votes in 2020 was canceled by the courts, which accused him of having distributed, in the midst of the pandemic, 15,000 masks accompanied for some of his photo, without this action having been declared in his campaign accounts.
Accusations of patronage
In this popular commune of 32,000 inhabitants marked by the departures of dozens of young people for jihad in Syria, accusations of “
patronage
” punctuated the campaign on both sides. The invalid mayor Ali Rabeh denounced during the campaign the "
drift
" of the former mayor PS Guy Malandrain (2001-2020), became number three on the list led by Othman Nasrou, close to Valérie Pécresse. For his part, the latter blamed Ali Rabeh for a “
clientelist
” system with “
intimidation, threats, pressure
” that he would have put in place since his arrival at town hall in June 2020.
Ali Rabeh's victory was quickly greeted this Sunday evening by Julien Bayou, the boss of environmentalists, and by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France Insoumise, the latter considering that "
the union of the right and the PS is massively rejected.
"Nadia Hai, the minister responsible for the city and originally from Trappes, addressed her"
republican congratulations
"to the mayor and"
hopes that after months of tensions, (...) the inhabitants will finally find dignified political debates and the serenity they deserve.
"