2023-05-04 19:30:03
Yellow card or red card? Temporary or permanent exclusion? In Toulon, rugby is an inexhaustible supplier of allegories. Sidelined by the Marseille criminal court, which sentenced him, Friday, April 14, to three years in prison suspended and five years of ineligibility with immediate effect for concealment of embezzlement of public funds, Hubert Falco still hopes regain its place at the forefront of the Var political game.
This is the objective of the appeal that the former mayor of Toulon and president of the Toulon-Provence-Mediterranean metropolis (TPM), 75 years old, appealed. And this is the message he has been distilling in private to his followers since his conviction.
In the event of a return of the former minister, who has piloted the destinies of the Var capital since 2001, his running mate has done nothing that could compromise the future, when it comes time to elect his successors in both assemblies. Wednesday, May 3, during a town council where “Hubert’s seat”, dominating the rest of the other elected officials, remained empty for a long time, the fifty members of its majority voted unanimously for Josée Massi. The first assistant (unlabeled), a former mathematics teacher who arrived in politics in 2014, did not want “not really” sit down in Mr. Falco’s still warm armchair. Knighted by the outgoing, she nevertheless becomes the first female mayor of Toulon.
Thursday, May 4 in the metropolis, intermunicipality which includes twelve cities, it is the mayor of Hyères, the academic Jean-Pierre Giran, former Les Républicains (LR) and first vice-president of TPM, who took over. Again without real opposition, since he was the only candidate, validated by Hubert Falco. Jean-Louis Masson, president (LR) of the Var departmental council, did not wish to appear, considering that the profile of Mr. Giran, “Gaullist as [lui] », suited him.
Mme Massi is 72 years old. M. Giran, 76. In Toulon, as in the metropolis, these new elected officials wanted to place themselves in the continuity of their predecessor. “A team that loses its captain remains united and continues the match… It will be our way of honoring Hubert Falco”said M.me Massi, weaving the parallel with the last victory, the previous weekend, of Rugby club Toulonnais in the European Cup. “I am not an heir, I am not an associate, but I am a friend of Hubert Falco (…) The course is set and it will be kept in the full exercise of my duties as president.confirmed Mr. Giran, after his election.
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