Like the socialist mayor, Benoît Payan, the majority of the left, citizen and environmentalist who manages the Marseille city, defends agreements for the elections of June 12 and 19, but is held at a distance from national tensions.
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In January, by formulating his wishes, the mayor (Socialist Party, PS) of Marseille, Benoît Payan, had warned the women and men of the left ambitioning to present themselves to the presidential election: “There is no D ‘Alternative to union. Otherwise, it will be the wall with full force. “
He could surely reuse his formula today for the attention of political devices which negotiate an alliance of the progressive camp for the legislative elections of June. But like a large part of the majority of the left, citizen and ecologist who pilots the second city in France, the young mayor – 44 years old – refuses to get involved in the game that takes place in Paris.
Since his accession to the head of the Marseille municipality in December 2020, Benoît Payan has moved without noise from the PS. And prefers to devote itself to the revival of his city and to maintain the unity of an executive where a dozen different political parties coexist. To those who ask him for his opinion, he just allowed himself to recall, as an example, that at Marseille, “the gathering and the overtaking of the labels made it possible to win a victory which seemed impossible”.
“Imperious necessity”, according to the Communist Senator (PCF) of the Bouches-du-Rhône Jérémy Bacchi, ex-candidat in the 7 e Marseille sector, “obvious obligation” for the municipal assistant Olivia Fortin, locomotive of the citizen collective Mad Mars, the idea of a union of the left forces for the legislative deadline is necessarily unanimous in the Marseille spring. Especially since the candidate of the Popular Union, Jean -Luc Mélenchon, produced in the city a demonstration of force in the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, with 31 % of the votes – and the tips at nearly 50 % in two of the eight sectors of the agglomeration.
“Union is the meaning of history!”
“With these figures, rebellious France [LFI] can arrive in the second round of the legislative elections in four of the seven Marseilles districts without ally with anyone, calculates the assistant Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV) Sébastien Barles. Conviction as if by necessity, there is necessarily a desire to unite with it. “
“The Union is the meaning of history! ignites Yannick Ohanessian, municipal security assistant and first secretary of the PS in the Bouches-du-Rhône. Not to get there would be A serious political fault of our national devices, at a time when the extreme right can earn constituencies “. The elected PS does not see in the recent wave Mélenchon who swept over Marseille a disavowal of the other left -wing formations. ” C’est le même vote utile que celui qui nous a portés à la mairie. Nos électeurs demandent le rassemblement et, à défaut, savent choisir le candidat qui a le plus de chance de porter le projet de progrès social qu’ils souhaitent ” , he tries to convince.
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