In Marseille, assaults from the appropriate launch the 2026 municipal marketing campaign | EUROtoday

“We're going to throw them out, this team of useless people who do nothing for France's second city!” With nearly a 12 months and a half to go earlier than the municipal elections, scheduled for the primary half of 2026, the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental council and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan space, Martine Vassal (numerous proper), units the tone: the appropriate's marketing campaign to win again Marseille from the outgoing mayor, Benoît Payan (numerous left), will likely be brutal.

On Sunday, September 8, in Gardanne, the previous candidate Les Républicains (LR), defeated in 2020 by the left-wing coalition Printemps marseillais, introduced collectively her followers for a “Back to school aioli”. And, above all, to show an illustration of union of what it defines as “the republican right and the center”. At the foot of the tribune, a parterre of elected officers – members of LR or of the events which shaped, till lately, the presidential majority. At his aspect, the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur area, Renaud Muselier, historic LR who grew to become regional supervisor of Renaissance. “We can win Marseille. But without unity, it is impossible. We must be tactical.”the latter says.

Stunned by the native outcomes of the legislative elections, which noticed all its elected representatives lose their constituencies to the National Rally (RN) or the New Popular Front, the opposition to the Marseille Spring welcomes the shock arrival of Michel Barnier at Matignon as a blessing. Especially because the dissolution of the Assembly has in all probability consigned to oblivion the undertaking to reform the municipal voting system in Paris, Lyon and Marseille (the so-called “PLM” legislation), which it didn’t need. “The “PLM” legislation is not going to change”rejoices Martine Vassal, who recollects that her camp holds three sector city halls (out of eight). “There is no reason why we should not have four by 2026, which would give us back the city.”she already calculates.

Drawing up an apocalyptic evaluation

Ten days earlier, it was on the Château de Forbin in Marseille that the reconquest technique was unveiled. The affiliation Une génération pour Marseille organized its first summer season universities there. This collective, co-led by the director of Renaud Muselier's workplace, Romain Simmarano, and the marketing campaign director of the resigning Secretary of State Sabrina Agresti-Roubache (Renaissance), Sandra Blanchard, has two goals. To carry out new faces in a camp that, in 2020, suffered from being connected to the legacy of Jean-Claude Gaudin. And to develop a municipal program for 2026.

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