Ajaccio (AFP) – The young UMP Corse-du-Sud Laurent Marcangeli Sunday continued his meteoric rise by clearly winning the municipal by-election Ajaccio face former mayor left Simon Renucci, already beaten in March 2014 before seeking the annulment of the vote by the administrative court.
Mr. Marcangeli, a lawyer for 34 years, who had tipped the Imperial City right in March 2014 after ten years of governance left, again won the duel with 59.26% against 40.74% for M . Renucci.
Less than one third (32.15%) of the 33,878 registered voters in the capital of Corsica with a population of 68,000 inhabitants abstained (33.45% in the 1st round.)
After the first round on 25 January, Mr Marcangeli, which had extended the same list (UMP centrist Bonapartist) than last year, had a comfortable lead of almost 15 points on his opponent whom he had taken the square House, headquarters of the City Hall on March 30, 2014.
On the evening of his defeat, Dr. Renucci, a doctor-pediatrician, 69, announced his withdrawal from political life, having already beaten the 2012 legislative Mr. Marcangeli.
But the former socialist activist, founder of the Social Democratic Corse small party had then changed his mind by filing an appeal with the Administrative Court of Bastia and a criminal, still under investigation for fraud.
The narrow victory of Mr. Marcangeli (329 votes, or 1.8% of the vote) was invalidated the October 23 by the administrative justice because of irregularities over several tens of proxies between the two towers.
Rising star of the island’s right, the new mayor was born in Ajaccio 10 December 1980 and entered into policy 16 years adhering, still in high school at Rally for the Republic
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Elected alderman opposition four years later, after studies law and history at Corte (Haute-Corse) and, since 2011, the General Council of Corse-du-Sud, the “love” of his city, passionate about football and cinema, has managed to unite the right Ajaccio, which allowed him to rob Mr Renucci his seat in 2012.
“In a historically conservative and liberal city Renucci had benefited from the divisions of the right and personal rivalries, there are five and ten years, Marcangeli managed to completely reverse the trend, “analyzed the journalist Jacques Renucci, a recognized specialist of the Corsican policy.
” A page is turned to the left ” added his colleague Jean-Vitus Albertini France 3 Corse, noting that it has paid the price including its disunity.
Simon Renucci, who left Ajaccio in the months following his defeat and near to have transferred his seat to Mr. Marcangeli has indeed obtained for the second round as the support of a separatist nationalist list that obtained 6.1% of votes in the first round.
In the opposition, the left will have ten of the 49 seats on the city council, two of them back to his separatist allies.
Many left of votes were reported in the first round on the list of one of his former assistants, the Socialist councilor François Casasoprana, came third in the first round with 7.8% of the vote and gave no instructions to vote for the second.
As a result of the erosion of power left, also illustrates this defeat, analysts, release to the island of the policy of President Francois Hollande and the government of Manuel Valls.
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