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Éric Piolle, this ecological mayor who dreams of a national destiny

2022-05-16T20:14:39.637Z


Mayor of Grenoble since 2014, he seeks to build himself in opposition to Emmanuel Macron and takes advantage of the debate on the burkini to drive the point home.


I'm a mayor but I'm also a national leader... It's a fact and I'm not going to stop

 ”.

Eric Piolle assumes it.

At 50 in a few months, the EELV mayor of Grenoble, elected since 2014, has a taste for debate, even provocation.

To the point of imposing a new debate on the burkini in the swimming pools in the middle of the legislative campaign, and winning the first round... This taste does not date from his involvement in the environmentalists' primary for the presidential election.

Before Sandrine Rousseau emerged and stole the show from him last summer, he was the person who embodied radical rupture, close to Manon Aubry, Clémentine Autain or François Ruffin while defending "

a humanist arc

" ranging from the Insoumis to to social democrats.

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Éric Piolle is often criticized for his societal positions, including on the left, sometimes also for his stubbornness in defending his often sensitive files, even in his municipal majority.

But one thing is certain, this...

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Source: lefigaro

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