“We are not socialists, it is a vote of reason,” stated Thierry Pauchet, leader of the opposition of lille.

The leader of the municipal opposition of lille, Thierry Pauchet (various right), called on Thursday to vote in the second round for the mayor outbound Martine Aubry (PS), warning his voters against a victory for the Greens, called “mad”.

“I do not wish that the city fell into the hands of extremists. We have therefore taken the decision to use the bulletin Martine Aubry on June 28. We are not socialists, it is a vote of reason,” he said during a press conference.

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Thierry Pauchet was surrounded by three colistiers of the list taken in the first round, the 15th march, by Marc-Philippe Daubresse (LR, 8,25%), and Isabelle Mahieu, a councillor of the right since 2001.

“Eco-marxist” and “intellectual terrorism”

Stéphane Baly, the head of the list of ecologist, is “someone I like” but there is in its list “the lunatics”, “the eco-marxist”, held Thierry Pauchet. “We are afraid, we cannot take the risk of having people at the head of the hall that lead us into an impasse”.

“initially, I was planning to just vote, as a staff, Martine Aubry. But now, I call everyone to vote for it ! There is a danger,” she said Isabelle Mahieu, fearing that an executive of 100% environmentalist. “The Green party in Lille, this is not the small trees and small birds… It is political ecology, with all that this entails intellectual terrorism”, she said, denouncing the fact that they are staying “nice and warm in the comfort of the majority and allowances for six years before typing today against what is their own balance sheet”.

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Thierry Pauchet has also found it “abhorrent and false the recent criticism against Martine Aubry when she does the job in recent months in the face of the crisis, more than that in personal circumstances very complicated”. “Today, there is a real issue with a second-round opponent”, according to him, “three lists of the left”, with, in addition to those of Martine Aubry and Stéphane Baly, that of Violette Spillebout (ex-PS today LREM), finish third on march 15 (17.5 per cent).

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Denouncing the “lack of spine” of the candidate macroniste, Thierry Pauchet has urged the voters of the right to realize that “voting Spillebout, it is a vote unnecessary, it is like the refrain of” as much as she did, to her eyes, no chance of winning.