Michele Rubirola and Benoît Payan, on July 4, after the mayor election of Marseille -

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THE ESSENTIAL

  • The Marseille city council is electing the new mayor on Monday after the resignation of environmentalist Michèle Rubirola.

  • The outgoing mayor has appointed her first deputy Benoît Payan as the natural candidate to succeed him.

  • At 42, the socialist Benoît Payan is on the way to becoming the youngest mayor of Marseille.

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TO HAVE

    Hello everyone, and welcome to this live!

    From 8:30 a.m., we will follow the election of the new mayor of Marseille live with you.

    Yes, here we are back in the hemicycle of the city council, after an epic third round that many of you had already followed with us last July.

    For those who would have missed an episode, the ecologist Michèle Rubirola, the first woman to be elected mayor of Marseille, indeed resigned Tuesday for health reasons.

    She would like to see her first deputy, the Socialist Benoît Payan succeed her.

    The election seems to him acquired with the support of the elected officials of the Marseilles Spring and especially of Samia Ghali, who this time cleared the suspense before the holding of the council.

    But in Marseille, we have a certain sense of drama and oratorical jousting… We will follow this together, stay tuned!

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    • Benoît Payan

    • Municipal elections

    • The Marseillais Spring

    • municipal Council

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    • Marseilles

    • Michele Rubirola