Gérard Schivardi

He advocated strong public services and increased power and independence of communes, denouncing what he called the "forced intercommunality".

In July 2003 he was elected representative of the Canton of Ginestas and resigned form the Socialist Party.

He attempted to run as "the mayors' candidate" (le candidat des maires), but was barred from doing so after the prime association of French mayors, the Association des Maires de France, obtained an injunction against Schivardi.

[2] Schivardi then changed his slogan to candidat de maires, which may be translated as "candidate of some mayors".

Several proposals in Schivardi's program, including the election of a new national assembly to suppress the French Fifth Republic's institutions, echo those of Daniel Gluckstein in 2002.