- Martine Vassal (LR), the outgoing president, was re-elected by absolute majority at the head of the Aix-Marseille metropolis with 145 votes.
- She was elected on a project to overhaul the metropolis, with structuring metropolitan projects such as economic development, mobility, and skills returned to the municipalities for more proximity.
An absolute majority victory for a “metropolis of mayors”. Outgoing President Martine Vassal, the Republicans, was re-elected this Thursday morning as head of the Aix-Marseille metropolis. She won an absolute majority with 145 votes, out of 201 metropolitan councilors, in front of Gaby Charroux, the communist mayor of Martigues, with 61 votes, the walker of La Roque d'Anthéron Jean-Pierre Serrus with 22 votes and Stéphane Ravier, of the National Rally with 11 votes.
Martine Vassal, who did not win her sector during the municipal elections in Marseille and who gave up her place as mayoral candidate to Guy Teissier, appeared very moved at the podium. "I cannot hide this strong emotion, I am honored that you have given me beyond my political friends. I thank my fellow travelers with whom we have gone through a lot of storms ”, she expressed herself before presenting her strategic axes.
More local skills
“A deeply reformed metropolitan institution, with a metropolis of projects on strategic axes such as economic development, mobility, ecological transition, and skills delegated to the territories with proximity. But also a structural action by working together on the reform of the law so that the metropolitan framework is adapted to the reality of the challenges of the municipalities ”, she developed.
It is on this idea of decentralization of certain skills, and a metropolis of mayors, that Martine Vassal managed to get re-elected. It was a wish of many mayor of smaller municipalities, like Maryse Joissains, the mayor of Aix-en-Provence, fierce opponent of the metropolis before the too important place occupied by the city of Marseille and its 102 metropolitan councilors. Maryse Joissains also campaigned for the re-election of Martine Vassal. The election of Gérard Bramoullé, first deputy mayor of Aix-en-Provence as first vice-president of the city goes in this direction. Just like the weak representation of Marseille elected officials among the 20 vice-presidents.
"Go and canvass the State alongside Michèle Rubirola"
If Martine Vassal did not mention the city of Marseille in her introductory speech, she still said she was ready "to go and canvass the state alongside Michèle Rubirola to catch up".
The new mayor of Marseille and her teams from Printemps Marseille did not present candidates for the head of the metropolis, and declined to comment after the vote. On Wednesday, they called for a "metropolis of projects". "As she had publicly committed herself to it, the mayor of Marseille will not be running for the presidency of the city. We must go to a metropolis of projects, with all mayors, and for the inhabitants. But Marseille must also have the means to implement the program of the new elected majority, ”write the elected officials of Printemps Marseille. Martine Vassal explained that she had to wait for the elections for the territorial councils to get to work and make her first decision.
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