ON THE JDD
The senator PS of Marseilles, Samia Ghali, announced her candidacy to the next municipal elections in Marseilles, considering that the city needs "of a true Madonna", in an interview with the Journal of the Sunday. "I'm ready, I'm going in. I'm a candidate for the city of Marseille," the Sunday newspaper told the honorary mayor of the 15 and 16th arrondissement in the northern neighborhoods. "I want to be a full-time mayor, I will only be mayor of Marseille," argues Samia Ghali, who was beaten by Patrick Mennucci during the socialist primary for the municipal elections of 2014.
"I was not born to be mayor"
Elected senator with the label of the PS, Samia Ghali explains having "left in 2018" the party. In early July, she created her own movement, "Marseille above all", which has 6,000 members, according to her. "Free to who wants to join my movement.This can evolve, but to this day I have no discussion with the left parties," assured the elected claiming to be "a woman left". "I started at the Socialist Left, with Julien Dray and Jean-Luc Mélenchon" (leader of insubordinate France), she recalls.
"Unlike others, I was not born to be mayor," she pleads, targeting Martine Vassal, a candidate invested by the Republicans and appointed by outgoing mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin as his heiress. "Granddaughter of Algerian immigrants", was born in Marseille where she grew up in a "shanty town", she adds.
The highly disputed Phocaean city
Before the PS Senator, several candidates have officially launched to succeed Mr. Gaudin, who will not seek a fifth term: Senator RN Stéphane Ravier, UDE boss Christophe Madrolle, Stéphane Barles for EELV and Martine Vassal, the President of the department and the Aix-Marseille metropolis, for Republicans. Senator LR Bruno Gilles has also maintained his candidacy, despite his failure to obtain the nomination of his party.
Côté On the march, the former president of the University Aix-Marseille, Yvon Berland, should be designated Monday by the national commission of investiture party. Two other contenders were in the running for the LREM nomination in the second largest city in France: Marseille's deputy in March Saïd Ahamada and Jean-Philippe Agresti, the dean of the Aix-Marseille law school. Tired of waiting for the decision of the party's national leadership, Said Ahamada announced his candidacy "whatever happens" on November 19th.