The local elections in Saint-Denis, a city with a population of over 150,000, saw, for the first time, the victory of a far-left candidate representing La France Insoumise (LFI): Bally Bagayoko was elected with just over 50% of the vote.
LFI and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, have made Bagayoko their champion. Through him, Mélenchon is methodically pursuing his promotion of what he calls the “New France,” a new country where ethnic mixing must become the norm—a “creolisation,” in his words, whose benefits are largely imagined, and which is supposed to revitalise an old country in decline.
“We are all children of Gaza”
shout activists linked to Bally Bagayoko, the newly-elected, far left mayor of Saint-Denis.
As of 2021, Saint-Denis had a population of 113,942 inhabitants, of which 43,173 were immigrants or 37.89%.pic.twitter.com/d1O5XKOpIB
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) March 16, 2026
🇫🇷Paris, France
Bally Bagayoko, the new mayor of the multicultural Saint-Denis neighborhood, gives a "victorious middle finger gesture" upon entering the Town Hall.
Bagayoko belongs to the far-left LFI party, run by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.pic.twitter.com/HUkDwasGVv
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 17, 2026
