Are the Marseille left irreconcilable? Until the primary spherical of municipal elections on March 15, the outgoing mayor, Benoît Payan, and his opponent from La France insoumise (LFI), the Bouches-du-Rhône deputy Sébastien Delogu, determined to go blow for blow. The second accuses the chief of Printemps Marseille, in cost since December 2020, “to pursue a Macronist policy”. And places him, with the assorted right-wing candidate Martine Vassal and the National Rally (RN) chief Franck Allisio, in the identical bag, that “of a corrupt political system” which he intends to overthrow.
The former socialist, now labeled varied leftists, retorts that his opponent, to whom he gave a kiss and whom he known as “my Seb” earlier than the tumultuous legislative elections of 2024, “chooses the division” And “must take it to the end”.
As if to symbolically reply to Benoît Payan’s solo declaration of candidacy 5 days earlier, it’s surrounded by activists and future operating mates that Sébastien Delogu presents, Thursday January 15, the practically 400 proposals of his program. In a cinema in La Canebière (1er arrondissement) rented for the event, the microphone passes from one speaker to a different, to the purpose that the pinnacle of the record even appears within the background. All element a catalog of proposals which takes up a few of the guarantees of the Marseille Spring in 2020. But above all outlines a need “to accelerate everywhere”in a metropolis served by social fractures.
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