• Michèle Rubirola had for a time mentioned a candidacy for the next departmental.

  • Faced with the outcry caused by this possibility, the former mayor of Marseille gave up participating in this coalition of the left.

  • For these elections, the left-wing candidates decided, this time, not to appoint a head of the list.

The question seems to annoy the candidates somewhat, who came to announce this Thursday at a press conference the constitution of a coalition of the left for the next departmental in the Bouches-du-Rhône. "Madame Rubirola is not a candidate for the departmental", launches at a press conference this Wednesday the spokesperson for EELV in Nathalie Morand. The former mayor of Marseille had nevertheless said he was ready to run for a new mandate as departmental councilor, after having left his chair as a municipal councilor because of major health problems.

“There was a debate within our party, recognizes Nathalie Morand.

If she had wanted to leave at all costs, even if some were against it, we would have supported her.

It was a decision that was very personal to him, and this choice to withdraw is his.

I think she took all the reviews into account and made the best decision for her.

Because of her health problems, Michèle Rubirola really needs to protect herself.

This decision to withdraw is the wisest, the most complicated, because a battle for the departmental requires a certain investment.

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Payan candidate without Rubirola

"This is frankly good news," says an environmental candidate to the departmental. We didn't know what she would do until the last moment. It was a little pushed by the reactions in the press, and that of the militants of the Marseillais Spring. But when we talked about it with Benoît Payan, he told us that, anyway, if Rubirola wanted to be a candidate, he could not refuse her, as first assistant. "

It is the same mayor of Marseille who will seek to retain his mandate as departmental councilor of the city center alongside a new pair, the mayor of the sector Sophie Camard.

“Michèle Rubirola had mentioned difficulties, and proposed to the negotiators to switch with Benoît Payan, abounds the Communist Christian Pellicani, also a candidate for the next departmental ones.

I don't really have an opinion on the question, except that I know that to be a candidate, it requires a commitment and a real availability.

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No designated head of list

After weeks of negotiations, the left forces finally agreed to present a “list of the widest possible union” bringing together the PS, the PCF, EELV and other environmental groups, Generation. s, the Republican and Socialist Left, the Left Radicals and non-inscribed citizens.

But after the express mandate of Michèle Rubirola, who resigned after a few months of her post as mayor from the Marseille Spring, the candidates for the departmental of this union of the left inspired by the Marseille Spring have decided ... not to choose the head of the list .

"We are not in the culture of man or woman providential", insists the socialist Clément Acar.

In case of victory against the outgoing LR candidate Martine Vassal, the name of the future president of the departmental council would be appointed after discussions between the departmental advisers of the majority.

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Marseille: "Political fault", "need for transparency", Rubirola under fire from critics after his candidacy for departmental

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Departmental in Marseille: Michèle Rubirola candidate for the elections

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