Maryse Joissains at her 2018 trial – Pascal Guyot / AFP
A fourth term for Maryse Joissains. Outgoing mayor Les Républicains wins second round of elections
municipal at
Aix en Provence, in the
Bouches du Rhône, with around 43.53% of the votes cast. A clear victory for the one who had been condemned for embezzlement of public funds and illegal taking of interests a year ago. Revenge, too, for Maryse Joissains, whose sentence of ineligibility had been canceled by the Court of Cassation less than a month before the first round.
“I admit that I would have liked to have had a little more, but I am extremely delighted. It is a great victory against Anne-Laurence Petel who benefited from the announcements of the billions of the Republic announced by the president. But during this campaign, I was soiled. It was a smear campaign. I think I will go to court. There are things I can’t let go of, ”she said.
The MP for La République en Marche, Anne-Laurence Petel, finally came second with 32.12% of the vote, ahead of Marc Pena, the candidate for the rally of the left with 24.34%. The Republic on the march had made Aix-en-Provence, like Le Havre, one of its objectives in these missed municipal elections for the presidential party.
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