His biography is already updated on social networks : “Candidate for Mayor of #Nantes in 2026”. A few weeks after the mayor of Nantes (PS) Johanna Rolland announced her candidacy for a third term, things are moving on the right. Opposition municipal councilor LR Foulques Chombart de Lauwe has officially entered the race.
At 43, the man who was a candidate in the last legislative elections (9.35% of the votes in the first round in the second constituency of Loire-Atlantique) seems to be taking his own camp by surprise. And in particular Laurence Garnier, leader of the opposition for two terms. “The elected representatives of Nantes from the right and the center take note of the early declarations of candidacy in this fall of 2023,” they react in a press release. Elected officials from the right and the center believe that the time is not for individual initiatives but for the construction of a collective project for Nantes. »
In an interview published this Thursday in Ocean Press, the brand new candidate promises a “wide gathering, not just of my original political family”. In the last municipal election of 2020, in the triangular which opposed it to the PS and La République en Marche, the right collected 27.6% of the votes in the second round.