Michèle Rubirola

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Michèle Rubirola (2020)

Michèle Rubirola (born July 28, 1956 in Marseille ) is a French politician . She's since 2015 a member of the Department Council of Bouches-du-Rhône and since July 2020 Mayor of Marseille. Your membership in Europe Écologie Les Verts is suspended.

Life

Michèle Rubirola is the granddaughter of immigrants from Spain and southern Italy. Her father was involved in the communist party , she grew up in the Marseilles district of Rouet, where she continues to live. In her youth she played basketball and was a member of the first mixed team of the football club Olympique Marseille . She completed a medical degree and practiced as a general practitioner. In the poor northern districts of Marseille, she is responsible for a patient education program for the chronically ill within the framework of a health insurance prevention center. She has three grown children.

Rubirola has been involved in the environmental and anti-nuclear power movement as well as against the military base on the Plateau du Larzac since the 1970s . As a feminist, she campaigned for the liberalization of contraceptives and abortion. However, she only joined the green party Les Verts in 2002 , which in 2010 became Europe Écologie Les Verts (EÉLV). As a representative of the canton of Marseille-1 , she was elected to the Départementrat von Bouches-du-Rhône in March 2015. There she sits in the socialist parliamentary group (EÉLV do not have their own parliamentary group).

For the local elections in Marseille 2020 Rubirola was nominated as the top candidate of the alliance Printemps marseillais (“Marseille Spring”), to which several left-wing parties (including PS , PCF , PdG ) have come together. Rubirola's own party EÉLV was not one of them, but put up its own candidate for mayor and suspended Rubirola's membership. After Printemps marseillais had received 23.4% in the first ballot and the Greens only 8.1%, the two lists were combined for the second ballot, in which EÉLV also supported Rubirola. She won the second ballot with 38.3%. On July 4, 2020, the local council elected her mayoress with 51 out of 101 votes; alongside Printemps marseillais and the Greens, she received the votes of Senator Samia Ghali's independent left list . Rubirola is the first woman to serve as head of the city of Marseille.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nadia Pantel: Michèle Rubirola - Marseilles hope for a new beginning. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (online), July 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Marseille: l'écologiste Michèle Rubirola, l'outsider qui fait trembler la droite. LCI, June 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ Marseille - Canton n ° 1. Département Bouches-du-Rhône, accessed on 3 July 2020.
  4. ↑ Municipales: qui est Michèle Rubirola, la première femme maire de Marseille qui fait basculer la ville à gauche. France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 4th July 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Rubirola, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician (EELV)
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille