Less than a month after being officially invested by Renaissance, the various right-wing candidate for Marseille mayor Martine Vassal has caused a storm among her Macronist allies. The fault lies in a short sentence pronounced Monday, December 1, at the end of an interview on Sud Radioleaving the door open to an alliance with the National Rally (RN).
Pressed with questions from journalist Jean-François Achilli on a potential programmatic agreement with the RN in the second round, the president of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and the Aix-Marseille-Provence Métropole finally responded: “We’ll see at that point. » An ambiguity which caused a surge in support in the Macronist party and delighted MP Franck Allisio, candidate for the far-right party in Marseille.
Coincidentally with the calendar, part of the local political class gathered, late in the morning on Monday, December 1, at the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture for the induction of the new prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. And was more interested in the consequences of Ms. Vassal’s interview than in the speech of prefect Jacques Witkowski. The former Secretary of State for the City Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, historic support of President Emmanuel Macron, was seething.