Elected member of a dissident LR list joins Samia Ghali

Lisette Narducci, elected from a dissident LR list at the municipal level in Marseille, announced Friday her rallying to the ex-socialist senator Samia Ghali, the day before a thrilling municipal council which must choose the or the new mayor of the second city of France.

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" Aware of the democratic and political impasse in which the city of Marseille finds itself, I made the choice of a rally with Samia Ghali ", writes Ms. Narducci in a press release. Mayor of the 2nd and 3rd arrondissements, Lisette Narducci, ex-radical of the left who passed into the camp of the mayor of the right Jean-Claude Gaudin during the municipal elections in 2014, stood in this year's elections on the list of dissident LR Bruno Gilles . She thus returns to the left, shuffling the cards a little more before the city council and reinforcing the key role of Samia Ghali.

With now nine elected members of the municipal council, Samia Ghali, victorious in popular districts of the north of Marseille (15th and 16th arrondissements), can tip the scales to the right or the left in an election with the air of a saga.

Arriving largely in voice after the second round, the union of the left and environmentalists called Printemps Marseille and led by Michèle Rubirola has 42 seats on the municipal council. He needs 51 to ensure that Michèle Rubirola is elected mayor in the first or second round, hence the crucial role of the voices of ex-PS Samia Ghali. But the latter conditioned Friday his support for obtaining the post of first assistant, receiving, however, an end of refusing to receive Marseille Spring.

The Les Républicains list, led by Martine Vassal, who has since withdrawn, came second in the city and obtained 39 advisers.

By announcing Thursday to make way for Guy Teissier, 75, an old driver from Marseilles politics, as a candidate for the central mayor, Mme Vassal had affirmed that the right could count on the three elected members of the dissident LR list of Bruno Gilles. It would thus have risen to the Marseille Spring level with 42 seats. But the defection of Lisette Narducci from the Bruno Gilles camp once again shuffles the cards. During the municipal council, in the first two rounds of voting, an absolute majority is required, ie 51 votes. Then it's the relative majority. In the event of a tie in the third round, the candidate elected will be the oldest.