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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE NORTH
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The left-wing parties have concluded an agreement in Biona to run together for the second round

The nationalist Jean-Claude Iriart will head the list of the Alliance of the Left, with the aim of removing Jean-René Etchegaray from the position of President of the Alliance, and the details of the agreement will be announced at a hearing scheduled for 5 p.m.
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The parties of the left have closed a historic alliance in Bayonne. Jean-Claude Iriart (Bayonne Movement, list that includes the left abertzales)  and Henri Etcheto  (Bayonne tout simplement !) will join the lists of candidates of the left and will stand together for the second round of the municipal elections next Sunday.

In the labour capital, Bayonne Jean-Rene Etchegaray(Bayonne, you are the essentials!, center and right) won the most support in the votes on Sunday, with 42% of the votes, followed by the nationalist Iriart, with 21.9%, and the Jacobin socialist Etcheto, with 21.3%.

The details of the alliance will be announced at a hearing this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. The information released so far will be submitted to Iriart, who will make a proportional distribution of the members according to the results of the first round. 

In the previous two votes, in 2014 and 2020, the collaboration between the left-wing groups did not work, but this time the agreement has been agreed with the approval of the militants. The aim is to remove Etchegaray, Bayonne's mayor, from office for the past 12 years. 

That being the case, three candidates will compete next Sunday in Baiona: the centrist Etchegaray, the leftist Iriarte and the ultra-right-wing Pascal Lesellier. 

A total of 11 municipalities will go to the second round.  In Kanbo, San Juan de Luz, Hendaia, Urrugne, Maule, Bokal, Beskoitz and Azkaine there will be no alliance and each list will go its own way.  is being negotiated in Biarritz, where there may also be a pact between the left lists.

Last Sunday the first round of municipal elections took place in 158 municipalities inthe French Basque Country, of which 147 were decided for the next six years. 

 

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