A long page turns in Aix-en-Provence.
The mayor of the second city of Bouches-du-Rhône, Maryse Joissains resigns from her post of mayor, which she has held since 2001, she announced in a press release.
"It is with great emotion and a pang of heart that I see myself forced for health reasons to resign from my functions as mayor of Aix-en-Provence," she writes.
"I came out almost blind"
“I was planning to announce my decision at a press conference, but unfortunately my health will not allow me to cope with this new emotion,” she continues. Maryse Joissains had been able to keep her post as mayor, after a fourth term won in June 2020 thanks to her cassation appeal, suspending her sentence to eight months in prison suspended and three years of ineligibility for illegal taking of interest and misappropriation of fund delivered in 2020.
She puts forward, moreover, as an explanation for her health problems, this conviction: ten days.
I came out almost blind.
Nine months later, my vision has not returned and I am forced to take a step back and take care of myself.
His first deputy, Gérard Bramoullé, will act as interim until the election of a next mayor, but Maryse Joissains remains within the municipal council, just as at the head of the territorial council of the country of Aix.
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