Benoît Payan launches his mayoral re-election marketing campaign alone | EUROtoday

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The mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, in Marseille, July 8, 2025.

The title is similar, however the technique has modified. At the tip of 2019, the Marseille Spring, a big left-wing, citizen and environmentalist union, launched its victorious marketing campaign with a collective taking place, the place asking the query of the title of the top of the checklist was thought-about inappropriate.

Six years later, it was alone that Benoît Payan, the assorted left-wing mayor of Marseille, introduced, Saturday January 10, by a letter to his fellow residents and a press convention in his electoral premises on Canebière, his candidacy for the municipal election of March 15 and 22. The Marseille Spring activists and elected officers have been mobilized to take part, very early on, in an enormous collage of posters and a marketing campaign all through the town. At 47, the previous socialist now poses because the undisputed chief of a coalition which intends to maintain Marseille.

“Together we have started to put the city back on track”writes the outgoing mayor, who highlights his file by way of debt discount, ecological transition, training, social points, but additionally safety, with the doubling of the municipal police drive. “More than 5,000 substandard housing units have been rehabilitated, 525 emergency accommodation places created (…)finances are cleaned up », he explains, while recognizing “with lucidity and humility” that there stays “still great things to accomplish”.

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