He was the only candidate in the running. The LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard was re-elected on Wednesday for a second term at the head of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), with nearly 92% of the votes cast. The outgoing president collected 8,084 of the 8,799 ballots counted, i.e. a participation rate of just over 25%, the AMF said in a press release.
If the vote was less mobilized than in 2021, the result is logically less close since no competitor was positioned against David Lisnard, assured from the start of being reappointed for a second term.
In duo with a socialist elected official
His unique list of “unity and independence of the AMF”, presented in tandem with his vice-president André Laignel, the inexhaustible PS mayor of Issoudun (Indre), garnered even wider support with 8,201 votes. , or more than 93% of the votes.
Thus “brought together and reinforced in its unity”, the AMF ensures that it “remains fully mobilized and will continue to act in the interest of all the municipalities and intercommunalities of France”. “I know that he will continue to talentedly defend mayors, the first pillars of our democracy and that he will carry out the necessary implementation of successful decentralization to modernize France,” reacted former Minister of the Armed Forces Hervé in particular. Morin, president of the Centrists party.