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After the withdrawal of Vassal, the Marseille right-hand bet on Teissier

2020-07-02T22:53:43.777Z


The candidate's replacement is not unanimous. Another elected LR, Lionel Royer Perreaut, announces his candidacy.


This is one more twist in a decidedly extraordinary election. Martine Vassal, head of the list of Republicans in Marseille throughout the municipal campaign, will not stand for election as mayor during the installation session of the municipal council on Saturday. It is Bouches-du-Rhône deputy Guy Teissier, former mayor of the 5th sector and former president of the Marseille-Provence urban community, who will ultimately be the candidate of the right. The two elected officials announced it Thursday, during a surprise press conference in the garden of the Palais du Pharo. This week, I worked so that we were finally reunited (…), I made the choice of wisdom, experience, consensus and respect", Explained the president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis by announcing this alternative candidacy.

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Contested since her defeat on Sunday in her own sector, the president of the departmental council of Bouches-du-Rhône had failed to rally her camp, after the results. Monday, Bruno Gilles, ex-LR whose list obtained three seats, had promised that he would not "vote" for Martine Vassal. Since then, the maintenance of the latter's candidacy had been hotly debated. Its withdrawal was also an option prepared behind the scenes for a few days. " It is a decision of consensus, " says one in the entourage of the candidate, stressing the unblocking of the situation with dissident senator Bruno Gilles.

The rally card

According to our information, Gérard Larcher met with dissident LR late Wednesday morning. He learned that the senator from Bouches-du-Rhône was ready not to ask for the first place of nominations for senators in the Bouches-du-Rhône.

In the process, during a lunch with Bruno Retailleau, Éric Ciotti, Christian Jacob and Roger Karoutchi, the President of the Senate raised a dozen points to be decided as early as next week as part of the preparation of the senatorials. Marseille was immediately invited to the menu for the discussion on investitures. All the participants recognized that it was complicated to entrust the head of the list to Bruno Gilles, given the divisions of the right in the Marseille city. In an emergency, Bruno Retailleau, the president of the LR group in the Senate, then summoned Bruno Gilles to his office. The two men agreed to play the rally card.

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Bruno Gilles is committed to putting his three voices at the service of Martine Vassal, on the condition that he enters third place on the list of next nominations. But this alliance does not allow the Republicans and their new candidate, Guy Teissier, to secure 42 votes at the city council on Saturday. Because internally, a certain number of elected officials did not appreciate this new turnaround.

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Things were done without any of the group's elected officials being asked or even informed. I will not rally including not the candidacy of Guy Teissier and will also be a candidate on Saturday, ” plague Lionel Royer Perreaut, the mayor of the 9th and 10th arrondissements, widely re-elected on Sunday. I do not endorse the way this change of candidate was announced nor the fact that Guy Teissier is ready to make an alliance with the RN to win. The Republicans must have a candidate who represents the true values ​​of the right and the center, ”he adds.

But neither Samia Ghali, the ex-PS with 8 seats, nor Stéphane Ravier (RN), whose list obtained 9 seats, have not yet expressed their intentions. The Marseille election has never been so uncertain.

Source: lefigaro

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