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It is D-Day on the old port with the election of the mayor by the 101 municipal councilors. And if the left embodied by the Marseillais spring by Michèle Rubirola came first on the evening of the second round, the suspense remains whole because it takes 51 municipal councilors to win the absolute majority. However, the left and environmentalists totaled only 42. Right, Martine Vassal, the LR candidate, finally bows out but still does not manage to make the union, all this under the eyes of the Marseillais tired by this endless soap opera.
"From political politics"
Whether right or left, this week of political negotiations will leave its mark. "It is unbearable! That is political politics, they work it out with each other, we are against all that!", Indignant one resident. Others regret a "ridiculous" situation which gives "a deplorable image" to the city, and say they are "very worried about the future".
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Because will there be an absolute majority for the left this Saturday? Nothing is less certain: Senator Samia Ghali, who can bring the voices that are missing, will not get the position of first assistant that she claims. "No blackmail," cropped the Marseille Spring.
But newly elected Yannick Ohanessian believes in a last-minute deal. "We are living in a historic moment in our city. We have offered to Samia Ghali to come with us, to constitute a majority. The question is not a question of position, of place, but what we will do tomorrow for the city of Marseille, "he said.
"Unprecedented political situation"
Voice over fishing, to the end, and to add to the suspense, the torn right should present two candidates: the dean Guy Tessier and Lionel Royer-Perreaut, dissident at the last minute. "This city is in turmoil. The political situation is unprecedented, and therefore we expect a city council which should go into the annals of this city," predicts the latter.
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Meanwhile, supporters of the Marseilles Spring are demonstrating, arguing that they do not accept that the election is "stolen" from them.