Christophe Béchu will attempt the third pass. Mayor of Angers since 2014, former minister of ecological transition (2022-2024), general secretary of Horizons, Edouard Philippe’s party, will on Friday, November 21, formalize his candidacy for the municipal elections in March 2026. The outgoing mayor will be able to count on a united front of the right and center. Christophe Béchu has received support from Renaissance and MoDem and is confident that the Les Républicains party – which he always welcomes on his list – will join him. On the other hand, he can no longer rely on former environmental activist senator Corinne Bouchoux who only wants to serve one term.
The main difficulty for Christophe Béchu is that the city has still not been won by the right and center groups. The party was led by the left from 1977 to 2014, and, in the last European elections, in June 2024, the political camp polled 47.37% of the vote, compared to 26.06% for the right and center, and 19.45% for the right.
And the left thinks about this. In late June, the Demain Angers collective appointed ecologist Romain Laveau to challenge the former ecological transition minister. A 46-year-old schoolteacher, he has been campaigning for environmental activists since 2005 and was a city councilor in the socialist majority of Jean-Claude Antonini (mayor of Angers from 1998 to 2012). Most recently, Romain Laveau was also the coordinator of the gender and sexual violence investigation unit at Europe Ecologie-Les Verts.
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