Having remained silent since her defeat in the second round, Martine Vassal decided to speak two days before the Marseille municipal council. - P. Magoni / SIPA

The twists and turns never end in Marseille.The president of the metropolis and the department of Bouches-du-Rhône Martine Vassal (Les Républicains) announced Thursday that she was withdrawing from the race for the succession of Jean-Claude Gaudin in Marseille, for which LR will present the candidacy of deputy Guy Teissier.

"I made the choice of consensus," said Martine Vassal, alongside Guy Teissier, at a press conference, also assuring that the dissident candidate LR Bruno Gilles would bring his three votes to the latter during the mayor election scheduled for Saturday. In the second round of the municipal elections on Sunday, the union of the left came largely in the lead over the whole city, but the two blocs count with the rallying of Bruno Gilles, now both 42 votes on the municipal council, where the majority is at 51 votes.

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