Two elected officials close to Samia Ghali, recently placed in police custody in an investigation into questionable proxies established for municipal authorities in Marseille, are absent from the list of deputy delegations unveiled on Tuesday, July 21 by the left-wing majority of Michèle Rubirola .
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Presented in the list of 30 deputies immediately after the election of Michèle Rubirola on July 4, respectively in 11th and 22nd places in the municipal hierarchy, Roland Cazzola and Marguerite Pasquini, elected in the 15th and 16th arrondissements, do not finally appear in the neither in the list of 28 deputies which specifies the delegations of each published Tuesday by the municipality. Contacted by AFP, the town hall did not react immediately to comment on their absence.
Both already placed in custody last week
Last week, they had both been taken into police custody, then released without being prosecuted, in the investigation into questionable proxies established in the 8th sector, won by ex-PS Senator Samia Ghali. This investigation follows another, also opened in Marseille on other proxies suspected of having been fraudulently established in the 4th and 6th sectors, two strongholds of the Republicans.
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In the list of delegations published Tuesday, the first deputy Benoît Payan inherits a large portfolio " for a fairer, greener and more democratic city ". Samia Ghali, after being allied with the Marseille Spring in the second round of the mayoral election, for her part obtained the post of 2nd deputy " in charge of territorial equality, Euro-Mediterranean relations, attractiveness. and major Marseille events ”.
Pierre-Marie Ganozzi, professor of history and geography and 3rd assistant, was in charge of the “ school plan ”, while the issue of the poor condition of schools undermined the previous term of office and was one of the priorities of the Marseille Spring, the coalition left which brought Michèle Rubirola to the succession of Jean-Claude Gaudin.
Coming from civil society and falling for candidate LR Martine Vassal in a sector deemed to be lost on the right, Olivia Fortin (4th deputy) will be in charge of " the modernization, operation, transparency and quality of municipal services " . These 28 assistants " will be reinforced by delegated municipal councilors thereafter ", specifies the town hall in its press release.
