“And yet, there are no immigrants, no insecurity, no precariousness…”
In Xirocourt, a village of 450 inhabitants in Meurthe-et-Moselle, the former mayor is still in shock: during the first round of the presidential election,
“they voted 42% for the extreme right
!
, strangles Alain Delhotal, who was mayor (Various left) from 1989 to 2008.
And nearly 56% for Marine Le Pen in the second round
.
No more question for him, therefore, to organize this jazz festival "Swing in Xirocourt" which was to take place in July.
“I do not want to have these people in the public
, hammers the former elected official.
I refuse to devote time to promoting a village whose name has become synonymous with exclusion, withdrawal.
If I had been mayor, the prefect would have received my resignation and I would have refused to organize the second round.
Scores like this, however, there have been many others in the French countryside: from the Landes to the Meuse, in the
"diagonal of the void"
, in the medical deserts...
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