Sabrina Decanton, municipal councillor for the Ecologistes (Green party) in Saint-Ouen, France, has announced she will be withdrawing from the municipal election scheduled for March 2026.
Among her reasons listed are the homophobic comments within her own local Ecologistes group, specifically saying that she was a “target of homophobia,” according to the text of her announcement posted on X by Fdesouche.
“My sexual orientation is mentioned as an obstacle to my candidacy and a possible victory, some believing it would be incompatible with the support of working-class neighborhoods – a position I consider stigmatizing and discriminatory,” Decanton wrote.
Of note here is that her party is presumably caving to pressure from the local population of Saint-Ouen, known to be home to many African and Middle Eastern migrants, which the French refer to as “working-class.”
In other words, minority residents, especially known to be largely Muslim migrants, will not accept a lesbian as a candidate.
Decanton also mentions facing pressure to sign an illegal and unethical document, were she to be elected, that would have relegated municipal decisions to a “restricted and secret group.”
One commenter on X noted that such agreements are known to be ”relatively common” in immigrant-heavy cities, although he had never heard of them being put in writing.
Just outside of Paris, in its northern suburbs, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine has a population of some 47,000, 40 percent of which were foreigners, according to 2023 estimates by INSEE.
Seine-Saint-Denis, the department to which Saint-Ouen belongs, was home to 7.8 percent of immigrants from Metropolitan France, according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior in 2021.
“I deeply believe that another way of doing politics is possible, but I refuse to compromise my values and my integrity,” Decanton added to her announcement.
In a recent Instagram post, she appears to congratulate Zohran Mamdani on becoming mayor of New York City, calling him “a multicultural mayor for the global city New York.”
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