2026 Municipal Elections: “I can make Bordeaux win,” Thomas Cazenave launches the campaign

For the first meeting of the municipal election campaign and the restitution of its "major consultation," 300 people gathered around Thomas Cazenave. Security, cleanliness, and mobility were the main concerns of the respondents.

"Tonight marks the beginning of the campaign to help Bordeaux win," asserts Thomas Cazenave. It was assumed that the Renaissance MP only thought about Bordeaux City Hall during his morning ablutions. Now he's fully immersed in the municipal campaign by opening the rallies. A prominent figure whose underlying message is to showcase his strengths.

Nearly 300 people responded to his invitation to the restitution at the Mer Marine Museum, this Wednesday, June 25, of the "major consultation" launched by Renouveau Bordeaux three months ago. Nothing was missing: banners bearing his image, a full room, an audience eager to cheer, and a carefully designed scenography. Better still, the candidate took care to excuse his rivals from the center-right: Pierre de Gaétan Njikam, Alexandra Siarri, and Nathalie Delattre. Three opposition elected officials close to the Minister of Tourism were even courteously invited to sit in the front row. We also encountered Didier Cugy, a municipal councilor from the ranks of the majority.

For Thomas Cazenave, it was "unimaginable to engage in a municipal campaign without giving the voice of the people of Bordeaux." A total of 2,000 people responded to the questionnaire. And among the top expectations, safety (49.4%) was the most important. Cleanliness and transportation (40%) were tied for second, far ahead of culture, sports, leisure, and housing at 23%.

"The result is unambiguous: we are no better off living in Bordeaux today than we were five years ago."

"The result is unambiguous: we don't live any better in Bordeaux today than we did five years ago." And he pillories the municipality's "setting fatalism": "We always get the same answers; 'it's complicated,' 'it's not my responsibility,' or 'cleanliness isn't me, it's the Metropolis, security is complicated, it's the State.' We can't accept that, otherwise what's the point of elected officials?"

Thomas Cazenave says he is convinced of a "very strong expectation for things to change . These are two conceptions of the city that will clash. They will decide the future for the coming decades."

In the coming months, he will detail the outlines of the alternative he intends to embody in the face of an outgoing team "which has chosen withdrawal as its horizon, inaction as its method. […] I am not saying that the results are zero, I do not want to fall into a caricatured position, but I want a city that moves forward, that makes decisions with another method for another path."

"We have everything we need to succeed," is Thomas Cazenave's conviction, and he also took care to send a message to his partners, while the union in the center-right remains a thorny issue . "That dialogue for unity takes place is the essential condition for success." He also has an idea of ​​the landing point: "I have a conviction, and that's why I'm here before you tonight, that I can make Bordeaux win." But he's not the only one...