Marseille (AFP)
The candidate of the National Rally at Marseille City Hall, Senator Stéphane Ravier, launched Thursday his campaign by taking on the "disastrous" record of the outgoing LR municipal team, with a priority, security.
"Security remains the top priority in the 2nd largest city in France and will be the main topic of our election campaign," Stéphane Ravier, head of the list in the 13th and 14th arrondissements of Marseille, told a press conference he won in 2014.
Faced with the law on the cumulation of the mandates, he then left his seat of mayor of sector in 2017.
Increase in municipal police with the establishment of special brigades and a toll-free number to fight squats, "stalking washing machines" of drugs, Stéphane Ravier wants to "invest" in security to restore "confidence" .
"I want to treat Marseille as tourists," he added, surrounded by the other seven party list of the party that in the last European elections has arrived largely in the lead in Marseille.
The candidate did not spare his criticisms against "the team of Jean-Claude Gaudin": "The collapse of the buildings (of the street of Aubagne which made 8 dead on November 5, 2018) and the The drama it has brought has revealed the entire disastrous record of 25 years of rule, "also pointing to" street filth ", traffic jams and pollution.
"The mass departure of the Marseilles masked by a birth rate of foreign origin in the northern neighborhoods undoubtedly marks the most indisputable and shameful of the disavowal of a policy that will have led to the exodus of its historic inhabitants," lambasted Stéphane Ravier.
Two candidates The Republicans have already declared themselves right to take over from Jean-Claude Gaudin, who will not seek a fifth term: the president of the department and the metropolis, Martine Vassal, as well as Senator Bruno Gilles.
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