Demonstrations, big mouths, and drama expected. This Saturday morning, after a crazy municipal campaign, the municipal council meets to elect a new mayor.
In the key role, Senator Samia Ghali could shake everything up after the failure of her negotiations with the union of the left which came first in the popular vote. Because despite his 38.3% of the votes in the second round on Sunday, far ahead of the LR lists (30.8%), Michèle Rubirola, 63, a doctor in popular neighborhoods and an ecologist from the start, is far from assured to be the first woman to head the second city in France.
Ghali and "the refusal" of Rubirola. The ex-PS senator, re-elected Sunday evening in her stronghold in the northern districts of the city and strong with her 9 seats on the council, demanded the post of first assistant for her support for the Marseille Spring, a request sharply refused by the leader of the queue the union of the left and environmentalists Michèle Rubirola.
"I take note of Michèle Rubirola's refusal with sadness and dismay," said Samia Ghali on Friday evening. I therefore feel free, with my running mate, to make the best choice to defend our neighborhoods and meet the legitimate expectations of their inhabitants. ” She does not say more about her vote this Saturday.
The LR Royer-Perreault does not show up in the 1st round. Before returning for the meeting, the LR Lionel Royer-Perreaut, had announced his intention to run for the post of mayor of Marseille fearing arrangements between the other candidate LR Guy Teissier and the National Rally.
"Since I have heard the reactions of Mrs. Vassal (head of the LR list at the election) saying that if there were to be an election with National Front votes, she would ask Mr. Teissier to resign, I have heard the reaction of our president Christian Jacob and I decided to grant a presumption of confidence ”, he explained. He therefore does not present in the first round and will vote for Tessier. But he assures that he will run if he realizes at the end of the first round that one or more votes of the National Rally have voted for Teissier.
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The elected RNs leave the hemicycle. At the start of the meeting this Saturday morning, RN Stéphane Ravier asked to speak. It requires that candidates for the Marseille post can explain the reason for their candidacy. Refusal by session chair Marguerite Pasquini. And Ravier replies: "We will not present candidates and we will not participate in the vote, we are leaving this hemicycle. "Go after the other elected officials:" You who confiscate democracy and have spent nights sharing the posts with you, ladies and gentlemen, we leave you between. "
Demonstrators outside the town hall. Some 200 people, mostly supporters of Printemps Marseille, gathered before the council began in front of the town hall. "It is ours" (note: victory), they chant with portraits of Michèle Rubirola. On their placards, "Michèle mayor are words that go very well together", "Let us not be robbed of victory" or "We want renovated schools, not heated fachos".
The forces involved. 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 3rd round, the candidate elected will be the oldest. Le Printemps marseillais has 42 seats, LR 39, Samia Ghali 9, RN 9, the dissident LR list of Bruno Gilles, 2. Beaten in the 6th and 8th arrondissements, deemed to be captive for the right, Martine Vassal, Jean-Claude Dauphine Claude Gaudin, abdicated for the post of mayor, giving way to Guy Teissier, 75, an old driver from the hard right.
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