They were elected in the second round: a new mayor, two former Ligue 1 officials
Antony Gautier is not an athlete per se, but he is used to working with them. The international football referee is the new mayor of the city of Bailleul, a northern municipality with nearly 15,000 inhabitants. City councilor of the city of Lille between 2014 and 2020, Gautier was at the top of the Bailleuloises, Bailleulois list, and had finished at the top of the first round. Yesterday, the referee crushed his opponents with 50.3% of the votes cast, far ahead of the 27.28% of Marc Deneuche, various center candidate, and the 22.42% of Joël Decat, the environmental candidate.
One of the sportsmen that Antony Gautier met on the football fields is none other than the new municipal councilor of the city of Lorient, the former goalkeeper Fabien Audard, who has participated in 238 Ligue 1 matches during his career. In 21st position on the Unissons Lorient list, Audard saw Fabrice Loher win the town hall of the city of 57,000 inhabitants which therefore switches to the right. Another former Ligue 1 player, Sidney Govou, was also elected last night. 18th on the list of new mayor Marie-Hélène Mathieu, the former OL player will join the Municipal Council of the town of Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d’Or, located in the Lyon metropolitan area.
For the old basketball player Johanne Gomis, the evening was full of suspense. Present on the list of outgoing mayor Martine Aubry, the former French international (16 selections) saw the former minister impose herself on the wire, with a few hundred votes, before the environmental candidate Stéphane Baly. Pointing 9th on the Lille list in common, Lille in confidence, the basketball player is one of the 43 elected members of this list. Likewise, the former international handball Jackson Richardson who was in 3rd position on the LR list of Bruno Gilles (28.88% of the vote) was elected in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille. The former rugby player Pierre Rabadan who was in 4th position on the Union de la Gauche list (Anne Hidalgo) led by Carine Petit in the 14th arrondissement of Paris was also elected.
They lost in the second round: Cucherat and Ponchel miss the boat
Among the athletes and former athletes who were at the top of the list, Yann Cucherat is the one who suffered the biggest disillusionment. Invested by the presidential party of La République en Marche, the former gymnast, silver and bronze medalist at the 2005 World Championships who participated in four Olympiads, had been dubbed by the former mayor of Lyon, Gérard Collomb, with whom he was engaged since 2014. After his third place in the first round, Cucherat suffered the green wave which hit France head on. Despite the alliance formed with Les Républicains during the period between the two rounds, the 40-year-old former gymnast finished second, with 30.8% of the votes cast, more than 20 points behind the new mayor and candidate environmentalist, Grégory Doucet, elected with 52.4% of the vote.
Nicolas Ponchel, head of the list at Sannois in the Val d’Oise, was also beaten. The 40.13% of the 2018 kickboxing world champion unfortunately did not match the 47.81% of the outgoing mayor, Bernard Jamet. Despite a union with two other candidates, Ponchel again finished second, after finishing behind the outgoing mayor in the first round. Hired in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), the 98 world champion Frank Leboeuf was not elected to City Council. In 11th position on the list With you for Suresnes, Lebœuf noted the defeat of the candidate Yohann Corvis, who finished last in the second round, behind the new mayor of the city Guillaume Boudy (Right Union) and Xavier Iacovelli (LREM) .
They were elected in the first round: Leca and Capelle, Ligue 1 as mayor
Unless there is a summer movement, Ligue 1 will have two municipal councilors in its ranks next season. In Lens for two years, Jean-Louis Leca kept a strong attachment with his city of Furiani. Corsica, already a municipal councilor in the commune, filled in alongside the outgoing mayor Pierre-Michel Simonpietri, re-elected with 81.73% of the vote. His Angevin counterpart Pierrick Capelle was making his first campaign. In 21st position on the list of Franck Poquin (elected with 60.40% of the votes), he will sit on the municipal council of St-Léger-de-Linières, new municipality resulting from the merger of Saint-Léger-des-Bois and Saint -Jean-de-Linières and bringing together a little over 3,500 inhabitants in the Anjou metropolitan area.
Marc Boutruche experienced Ligue 1 with Lorient in the 2000s, before becoming the mayor of Quéven in Morbihan in 2014. He obtained his re-election in the first round in the city of more than 8,000 inhabitants, with 70.7% of voice. Olympic team champion with sword at the Atlanta Games, the former fencer Valérie Barlois-Leroux was appointed assistant in charge of youth and sports at Bouscat (Gironde) after having been elected in sixth position on the various right list of Patrick Bobet.
Engaged in winning lists, the footballer Joshua Guilavogui and the former coach of the XV of France Guy Novès will not, however, become municipal councilors. The first, resident in Wolfsburg, was ineligible and his presence on the Toulon list of Hubert Falco was symbolic. The second was in 27th and last position on the list of the mayor of Leucate (Aude, 4,339 inhabitants), Michel Py, who won 24 of the 27 seats.
They lost in the first round: Dhorasoo just misses the 10%
Others already had nothing more to hope for this Sunday. Two former footballers topped the list but did not pass the first round. Vikash Dhorasoo showed up in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, under the label La France Insoumise (Décidons Paris), and narrowly missed the 10% mark (9.29%). Patrick Revelli, legend of the Greens, had received the nomination La République en marche to target the town hall of Saint-Etienne, but he received only 4.72% of the vote. A campaign he led against his brother Hervé, in support of outgoing mayor Gaël Perdriau (Les Républicains).
On the Marseille side, the former OM striker, Mamadou Niang, had supported the candidate La République en Marche Yvon Berland. The list presented in the 15th and 16th arrondissements, where it was in 5th position, received 7.96% of the vote. A score similar to that achieved by the list Tous pour les Lillois (Les Républicains) where the former LOSC player appeared Ludovic Obraniak (8.25% of the votes). The 300 meter steeplechase specialist Mahiedine Mekhissi had chosen to enter 4th position on the Union des Rémois list, which received only 0.84% of the vote.
By Hugo Monier and Denis Ménétrier.
