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In the grand reception hall of the Stade Vélodrome presidential gallery, this Friday 6 March, the decor is flashy but the mood gloomy. Olympique de Marseille have just conceded a stupid draw at the last minute of their match against Amiens (2-2), the supporters are still scolding and Michèle Rubirola is annoyed. "You can't get caught up like that by leading 2 to 0 to ten minutes from the end", squeaks at the top of the Printemps de Marseille list. A journalist stops, recognizes her and asks her for a selfie. "A photo with the future mayor of Marseille ", he cooed. Nine days before the first round of the municipal elections, the 63-year-old doctor, who leads the union that thrills the Marseille left with hope, still seems surprised by the hypothesis. But she poses, flattered, forgetting for a moment her anger at the referee.
Since the start of the campaign, the Stade-Vélodrome has seen the candidates parade. Regulars, novices, opportunists, all come and post a photo of their visit on social networks. Mamadou Niang, former club scorer, joined the lists of La République en Marche (LRM). Manuel Amoros, former star of the Platini generation, supports him, the candidate of the Republicans (LR), Martine Vassal. Olympian President Jacques-Henri Eyraud, who has hosted Emmanuel Macron several times, inquires about the situation, but carefully avoids choosing a side.
To celebrate women’s rights, the club has made a strange habit of making its best unisex platform once a year around March 8.
Tonight, like fifty other "women who matter", Michèle Rubirola is the guest of the OM. The former socialist senator Samia Ghali and Martine Vassal, too, received a card. To celebrate women’s rights, the club has made a strange habit of making its best unisex platform once a year around March 8. Like the other VIPs, the departmental councilor was entitled to her "Go OM!" "Pink – girlish color – and her photocall to immortalize the event. "She kept saying to me, 'But what are those gourdasses who look at their phones rather than the match?' ", laughs Aïcha Sif, candidate of Printemps Marseille in the 9e and 10e boroughs, also invited.
