Yeah, our former mayor is basically your former mayor, except male and ancient. He and our current mayor are 'non-partisan' (they're conservatives.) The local elections aren't particularly interesting, as you can guess.
Where I used to live in Paris the local politics were equally uninteresting but for different reasons -- it's a very safe electoral precinct for left-wingers (election basically guaranteed), so whoever needs a favor from one of the big left-wing parties ends up a candidate there.
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Ah, thank you.
An afterthought: a bit over two weeks ago, during the first round of voting, when I was at the polling station, I saw a small group of very young-looking people (the voting age for local elections here is 16) who looked around themselves with fairly confused and unsure expressions on their faces, and looked very carefully at one instructional poster. Presumably first-time voters. That was kind of cute.
An afterthought: a bit over two weeks ago, during the first round of voting, when I was at the polling station, I saw a small group of very young-looking people (the voting age for local elections here is 16) who looked around themselves with fairly confused and unsure expressions on their faces, and looked very carefully at one instructional poster. Presumably first-time voters. That was kind of cute.