Mayor since 2001 of the capital of Flanders, Martine Aubry, 73, announced that she would not run for re-election in 2026.
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Renaissance MP Violette Spillebout, rival of Martine Aubry after having been her chief of staff, will be a candidate for mayor of Lille in 2026, she announced to The voice of the North Saturday March 23. “I [souhaite] be a candidate in 2026″declared the Northern MP to the Northern daily. “I am ready.”
Mayor since 2001 of the capital of Flanders, Martine Aubry, 73, announced that she would not run again in 2026. The name of the candidate to succeed her will be decided “together (…) when the time comes” within the Lille socialist camp, she said at the beginning of February. For the moment, within the Socialist Party, only the deputy Roger Vicot has announced his desire to be a candidate to succeed Martine Aubry.
An unsuccessful first application
Long time chief of staff to the mayor of Lille, Violette Spillebout, 51, accuses the city of 200,000 inhabitants of “closed in on herself during the last mandates of Martine Aubry”.
Violette Spillebout joined En marche in 2016 and became a deputy for the 9th constituency of the North in 2022. Already a candidate for the presidential camp in the 2020 municipal elections, she had collected 20.6% of the votes in the second round, far from Martine Aubry (40 %) and the ecologist Stéphane Baly (39.4%).
