The first woman mayor of Marseille, Michèle Rubirola, announced on Tuesday that she had tendered her resignation due to the health challenges she faces and wished that her first socialist deputy Benoît Payan succeed her.
“From the summer I experienced the first difficulties related to my health.
[…] These tests (of health) limit the energy that I can mobilize.
Being mayor of Marseille is 300% of his time, ”said the mayor in a speech from Marseille city hall.
Less than six months after being elected at the head of a union of the left called "Printemps Marseille" which had ended 25 years of reign of the right and the former mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin, this doctor of 64-year-old profession, prefers to give way.