But Llaro always voted for the dominant right.
But disillusioned and tired of the status quo, the Talaus, like many others, first voted for the far right last year, attracted by Aliot’s emphasis on cleanliness and crime, saying his home had been invaded twice.
Although pleased with the mayor’s performance, Talau said he would still join the dam against the far right in next year’s presidential race and close his nose to vote for Macron. But Mrs Talau was now considering launching a vote for Mrs Le Pen.
“She put water in her wine,” said Talau, adding that Macron was not “strong enough”.
Aliot’s opponent in 2014 and 2020, a center-right politician named Jean-Marc Pujol, pushed further to the right in an unsuccessful action to defend himself from the extreme right. He increased the number of policemen, giving Perpignan the highest number per capita of any major city in France, according to government data.
Even so, many of its main supporters seemed to rely more on the extreme right in crime and still deserted, while many leftist beavers complained that they were ignored and refused to participate in dam construction again, said Agnès Langevine, who represented the Greens and Socialists in the 2020 mayoral election.
“And they said to us, ‘In 2022, if it’s between Macron and Le Pen, I won’t do it again,'” she added.
Lebourg, the political scientist, said that Aliot also won over conservative high-income voters by adopting a dominant economic message – the same strategy adopted by Le Pen.