Overview
- Mazarine Pingeot canceled her planned talk in La Flèche, with the town’s website listing the event as canceled after the Rassemblement National won the municipal election.
- Pingeot said she and her team decided it was no longer a good idea to come, adding she did not want to discuss artificial intelligence when she saw more serious issues at stake.
- A second event, the children’s festival Du Bruit au Kid, was also called off after several artists pulled out, and organizers said they will try to reschedule.
- RN candidate Romain Lemoigne, 25, won the mayor’s race by 133 votes with 46.75% against 44.97% for outgoing Socialist mayor Nadine Grelet-Certenais, ending PS control since 1989 in this town of about 15,000 people.
- Marine Le Pen had visited earlier in March to back Lemoigne, who works as an assistant to RN MEP Philippe Olivier, tying the local contest to national party networks.