"Shocked" by the "wickedness" of the left, leading in the first round in Marseille, the outgoing LR mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin on Wednesday displayed his support in the final stretch to Martine Vassal, whose campaign was shaken up by suspicion of fraud.
In the past few weeks, "this is the first time I have spoken. So far, I have written a little, but I haven't spoken too much, "commented Jean-Claude Gaudin, during one of his very rare campaign outings alongside Martine Vassal, based on which is to host events for the 2024 Olympic Games.
"I did not like intolerance"
In this campaign, "I did not like intolerance, wickedness, low blows. In my political life, I have never indulged in this kind of exercise ”, assured at the end of this visit the tutelary figure of the Marseille right. "I observed that this left assembled in a heterogeneous way had precisely all these nastinesses on the agenda and that, that shocked me a little".
Four days before a second ballot which is played by sector, the outcome is more uncertain than ever in Marseille, a bastion of Republicans that Jean-Claude Gaudin has led for 25 years.
Municipal results
Martine Vassal suffered a setback in the first round, doubled by the union of the left led by Michèle Rubirola, who has since obtained the support of EELV. And the campaign panicked in mid-June, with the opening by the courts of an investigation into possible proxy fraud at Les Républicains.
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