They declare – virtually – all to have “Marseille in their blood”. And there are messages of affection for the second largest metropolis in France. Everyone presents themselves on the beginning line within the hope of reaching the central city corridor, led for six years by the left-wing, citizen and environmentalist coalition of Marseille Spring. For the primary time because the reform of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille (PLM) electoral regulation, the vote takes place on the metropolis degree, returning the vote for sector city halls, organized in parallel in a second poll field, to the standing of secondary elections.
Facing the outgoing Benoît Payan (varied left), who changed the ecologist Michèle Rubirola at brief discover in December 2020, stand out particularly the ambitions of the native chief of the National Rally (RN), Franck Allisio; a union of the proper and the middle led by the president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis Martine Vassal, defeated six years in the past; and the deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône (La France insoumise, LFI) Sébastien Delogu.
A casting of heavyweights barely disturbed by the looks, within the middle, of an surprising candidate, the previous senior civil servant Erwan Davoux, in tandem with departmental councilor Nora Preziosi (ex-Les Républicains, LR). And spiced up by the presence of environmental activist Victor Hugo Espinosa, 76 years previous, beneath the banner of Ecology on the middle. The World presents the six major municipal candidates, whose scores and alliances between the 2 rounds can play a job when figuring out the longer term governance of Marseille and its metropolis.
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