After a technical tie in the first round, he obtained 54.34% of the votes, 14 points ahead of his far-right rival, Franck Allisio, who, in turn, crushed the candidate from the right and center.
“[Esta] The city that some believed lost, that some believed conquered by the National Regroupment, showed its best face tonight, that it was capable of resisting, that it was capable, once again, of remaining united”, reacted Payan.
The left also maintained Lyon (center-east), the third largest city in the country, where environmentalist mayor Grégory Doucet won by a narrow margin (50.67% of the votes) against the former president of the Olympique Lyonnais football club, Jean-Michel Aulas (49.33%), long favorite in the polls.
The latter denounced irregularities and announced that he will file an appeal.
Re-elected in the city of Le Havre (west), former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, already declared candidate for the 2027 presidential elections, also immediately projected himself in the race over the next 13 months.
“There are reasons to have hope when all those of good will unite in a truthful speech and remove extremes and their ease”, he declared in front of his supporters.
The RN, which became France’s leading party in the 2024 legislative elections, has recorded numerous victories, after the 24 claimed in the first round, but continues to face a “glass ceiling” in large cities.
Leader Marine Le Pen stated that the party won “in dozens” of municipalities, including Carcassonne (southwest), Menton and Cannes (southeast).
“Never have the RN and its allies had so many elected representatives on French territory. In several dozen municipalities. We are called to prove our value (…). These successes are not an outcome, but a beginning”, declared Jordan Bardella, president of the RN, announced as leader in the polls for the first round of the 2027 presidential elections.
One of the allies, right-wing defector Eric Ciotti, won in Nice (southeast), the fifth largest city in France.
The vote, traditionally mobilizing, was marked by a historically low turnout of around 57%, according to polls.
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