in Marseille, “irregularities” trigger the cancellation of the overall meeting of Ecologists | EUROtoday

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Hassen Hammou, in Avignon (Vaucluse) on February 15, 2025.

On the night of October 14, 2025, the nationwide authority was happy to have succeeded in organizing and finishing up the overall meeting of Marseille members of the Ecologists. Under nationwide management since March of the identical yr, almost 300 Marseille activists had validated by two votes the technique of union with the Marseille Spring within the first spherical of the municipal elections in March. And appointed Hassen Hammou, former regional spokesperson, as chief to finalize negotiations with the opposite coalition forces aimed toward holding Marseille on the left.

Less than three months later, the virtuous trappings of the method had been shattered. The nationwide statutory council of Ecologists, assembly on Friday January 2, purely and easily canceled the outcomes of the overall meeting. A radical determination which follows one other episode which has already closely tainted the vote: the sentencing by the courts, on December 16, 2025, of Hassen Hammou to fifteen months in jail, suspended for corruption of a minor. A morals affair that the particular person involved had hidden from his get together earlier than his election, and for which he appealed.

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