The first deputy mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, confirmed on Wednesday his candidacy for the succession of the current city councilor, Michèle Rubirola.
The latter announced her resignation Tuesday for health reasons, six months after being elected head of France's second city.
The first socialist deputy of the current municipal team in Marseille, Benoît Payan, confirmed Wednesday in a message posted on Facebook to be a candidate for the succession of the mayor Michèle Rubirola, who announced his resignation on Tuesday.
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"I will present myself to concretize the project that we carried out together, that of involving all Marseillais, to raise our city and to put an end to the carelessness of recent years", he writes, saluting the "courage" of Michèle Rubirola, who had succeeded Jean-Claude Gaudin (LR) at the head of the second city in France under the colors of the Marseilles Spring, a vast union of the left and environmentalists.
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