The hard-right National Rally — which advocates for more economic protectionism and heavy crackdowns on immigration — won inaround 60 municipalities, up from11 in 2020. Louis Aliot, the second most senior figure for the party, was reelected as mayor of Perpignan in the first round of voting, while National Rally candidate Franck Allisio forced the left-wing incumbent mayor of Marseille into a runoff.