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and the
Radical Party of the Left who had been in control of the town since 1968. This outcome was the result of the nationalist's new electoral strategy that Gilles Simeoni had helped to design. This strategy privileged pragmatic alliances so that they could bring their ideas closer to the center of
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During the March 2015 departmental elections, the municipal alliance of Bastia ran pairs of candidates in the four cantons totally or partially within the City of Bastia. They had success in three out of four cantons which further proved that
Simeoni's strategy was working. However his ally Fraçois
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ahead of the
Radical Party of the Left's Jean Zuccarelli. On a municipal level, Simeoni's party received around a thousand more votes than they had during the 2010 elections while the Radical Party of the Left saw a decline of around 250. This was a confirmation of the narrowing gap between the two
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A year later, Gilles
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Simeoni's party received 32.32% of the vote. In the second round he picked up votes from the Union for a Popular Movement's Jean-Louis Milani and the Radical Party of the Left's François Tatti, leaving him with 55.40% of the total. The next
334:, the town that Simeoni's family originally came from, is within this electoral district. In the first round he received just 13.5% of votes (third place) and did not pass on to the second round. Despite this he would later go on to describe this campaign as a tipping point in his life.
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He was first politically active when he was at university, having been an active member of his student union. The beginning of his political career came in 2001 when
Simeoni and the A Mossa Naziunale movement, which he led at that time, supported Marie-Jean Vinciguerra during the Bastia
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Tatti's actions led
Simeoni, Jean-Louis Milani and Emanuelle de Gentili (who was Tatti's former running mate) to call for his resignation. This signaled the beginning of the campaign for the 2015 Regional Elections in which the nationalists hoped to confront Giacobbi.
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Gilles Simeoni: Now I'm Mayor I won't be a Lawyer Anymore (FR)
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Bastia: Easy Victory for Zuccarelli in the First round (FR)
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2010 regional elections and Member of the Corsican Assembly
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Gilles Simeoni: First Nationalist Mayor of Bastia (FR)
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639:DE BOISSIEU, LAURENT (25 March 2015).
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478:Doctoral Thesis of Gilles Simeoni (FR)
100:5 April 2014 – 7 January 2016
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