This Sunday the second round of the French municipal elections was held, in which the left has managed to preserve Paris and has recovered Marseille after 25 years. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has won in Le Havre and environmentalists have prevailed in Lyon, Strasbourg, Tours and Besançon. The electoral appointment has been marked by high abstention that according to projections could reach 60 percent. This Sunday the governments of almost 5,000 municipalities were decided. On a strictly political level, the first news after the polls closed was the re-election of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe as candidate of the Republic On The Move party in Le Havre, the city located at the mouth of the Parisian river Seine. Philippe has obtained 59 percent of the votes, according to the French television BFMTV, this would be a political victory for the president, Emmanuel Macron, who measures his forces against the strong rise that is expected for the Greens, who hope to take control The contrast is the victory of the socialist and Cadiz Anne Hidalgo, re-elected mayor of Paris after winning the support of the vast majority of the parties to her left. Hidalgo has clearly prevailed (49.5 percent of the vote) over his conservative rival, Rachida Dati (31.7 percent) and Macron’s candidate, Agnès Buzyn (14.4 percent) .He would also have won the left in Marseille with the candidacy of Michèle Rubirola, a visible face supported by environmentalists, socialists, La Francia Insoumisa and the Communist Party. Rubirola will allow the left to rule Marseille again after a 25-year absence.For their part, the Greens have confirmed their control of Grenoble, the most important city they ruled so far, and have also imposed themselves in Lyon, Strasbourg, Tours and Besançon, while the centrist François Bayrou has been re-elected as mayor de Pau, while in Perpignan, the candidate of the ultra-right party National Union, Louis Aliot, has prevailed over the outgoing mayor, Jean-Marc Pujol, of the conservative formation Los Republicanos. This second round was scheduled for March 22, although it was finally delayed due to the restriction measures imposed by the coronavirus. For this Sunday, certain health precautions are established such as the mandatory nature of masks for voters and officials.The Socialist Party and its allies hope to achieve Paris, as well as seize power from the conservatives in Marseille. Macron’s party could get to govern Strasbourg and can get another city due to its controversial alliances with the Republicans.In the first round, up to three ministers of the Macron government won their election, in an election marked by low participation due to the coronavirus .