She decided to hand it over before justice finally ruled on her case.
In his post for twenty years, the LR mayor of Aix-en-Provence, Maryse Joissains, has resigned, according to information from France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur confirmed by the prefecture of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Relatives of the elected, 79, advance a
"health reason"
to the local channel.
Maryse Joissains' approach comes at a time when the Court of Cassation must rule by the end of the month on her sentence to eight months suspended prison and three years of ineligibility for "illegal taking of interests and embezzlement".
Open succession
In the viewfinder of the Montpellier Court of Appeal, which handed down its judgment last December: the promotion of a driver - since canceled by the Council of State -, and the hiring of the community of municipalities of a employee in charge of animal protection, even though this area does not fall within the remit of this community.
The daughter of the elected, the former senator Sophie Joissains, could succeed him, according to France 3. But this prospect already revives the nepotism lawsuits brought by the opposition, in a city of 140,000 inhabitants ruled from 1978 to 1983 by Alain Joissains, the town's husband.
While waiting for the municipal council to meet, the current first deputy, Gérard Bramoullé, must take over the interim.
The former UMP deputy, however, did not see fit to resign from all her mandates: she remains president of the Council of the territory of the Pays d'Aix.