2023-11-16 18:30:03
Renaud Muselier (center), the president (Renaissance) of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, alongside Benoît Payan (right), the mayor (various left) of Marseille, in Marseille, June 28, 2023 . LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
To go from the terrace of the Rowing Club of Marseille to the balcony of the city hall, there is only the Old Port to cross. But still three years to wait. It was in this chic restaurant in the 7th arrondissement that nearly 300 people gathered on Wednesday, November 15, behind the slogan “Let’s mobilize for Marseille! » With, as a stated objective, an alternation in the municipal elections of 2026.
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Elected officials, members of civil society and activists from right and center parties responded to the joint invitation from Cap sur l’avenir, the party of President Renaissance of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier, and of the Association of Friends of Martine Vassal, the various right-wing president of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis. A deliberately rejuvenated audience, speeches with electoral campaign overtones, testimonies drawing up a very critical assessment of the action of the left-wing majority: a few days before the 3rd anniversary of the arrival in power of the mayor, Benoît Payan (various left ), everything tended to galvanize the troops. “The speeches of Muselier and Vassal were clear: now, let’s go! »summarizes a participant.
In Marseille, the opposition to the Marseille Spring, a left-wing, citizen and environmentalist coalition victorious in 2020, is experiencing a backlash. In May, in another restaurant in the Old Port, a first gathering, reserved for elected officials, symbolically made it possible to overcome the fratricidal wars of the previous election.
“Building together”
“A necessary moment of reconciliationremembers the former senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, Bruno Gilles, formerly of the Les Républicains (LR) party and now a member of Horizons, whose solitary adventure, in 2020, had reduced the chances of candidate Martine Vassal . Now the hardest part begins, we have to work together. ” ” We do not have the choice. If we do not create a broad union of right and center in 2026, we will lose”, warns, for her part, the vice-president of the departmental council Laure-Agnès Caradec, who will take over as president of the LR federation of Bouches-du-Rhône at the end of November.
On Wednesday, the Marseille opposition showed its cohesion, bringing together even the ecologists of the Union of centrists and ecologists. But relegated the thorny question of the leader and the common program to later, with a political spectrum ranging from a hard right to supporters of Emmanuel Macron. If senator Valérie Boyer (LR) and deputy Lionel Royer-Perreaut (Renaissance) were absent, it is because they were held elsewhere.
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