Paris (AFP)
The environmentalist mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola, elected in June under the label of union of the left "Spring Marseille", will resign for "health" reasons, AFP learned from EELV boss Julien Bayou.
It is a "resignation for health reasons", indicated the national secretary of Michele Rubirola's party - from which she had been suspended for several weeks for having competed in the first round against the official list of EELV.
According to several media, his first socialist deputy, Benoît Payan, who had already provided an interim due to an operation undergone by the city councilor in September, could become mayor.
Doctor and environmentalist, Michèle Rubirola, 64, was elected on July 4 by the city council after the victory in the last municipal elections of a left-wing coalition, "Le Printemps marseillais", which ended twenty-five years in power from the right led by former mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin.
Leader of the local Socialist Party, Benoît Payan had given up being head of the municipal list to allow a vast union of the left, part of France Insubordinate to the PS.
"It is an election stolen from the Marseillais, the Marseilles Spring shows us its electoral hold-up," fulminated on BFMTV the LREM deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône, Claire Pitollat.
"We must go through the ballot box again, we must respect the Marseillais" so that they have "the mayor they deserve," she added.
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