“We still don’t know if we are going to play rami or belote“, We have been repeating for several weeks in the Renaud Muselier camp, to justify this latency to declare that will embody the union of a right to reconquer the town hall of Marseille in 2026. Unless counter-order of the Constitutional Council, which is to decide within a month, it is official with the final adoption of the reform of the PLM law, this Thursday, July 10: it will be a sort of blind poker, as the rules of the campaigns Marseillaises by sector have been in local policies software for thirty years.
“Leading a campaign by sector was registered in our genes“, concedes a veteran of Gaudinie. No more apothecary accounts on the number of elected officials obtained in each of the eight sectors: now, the mayor of Marseille will be the one or the one whose list will have obtained the most votes throughout the city. A Copernican revolution in which part of the 2026 election is already played.
Chamboulated power relations
The PLM system of 1983 had become over the years rather favorable to the right and the center, with an electoral overvaluation of its fiefs in the southern and east districts. This is one of the reasons – rarely admitted – for which Martine Vassal (DVD) and especially Renaud Muselier (Renaissance) have so much scrapped against this reform. Romain Simmarano, president of a generation for Marseille, wants to believe that “The victory of the right and the center is possible if we are united, whatever the voting system“.
