Opinion of Gaston Defferre

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Mayor of Marseille for over a third of a century and Mitterand's first Interior Minister. And, yeah, two "r"'s, at the end, not one. lol.

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Apart from being connected extremely closely with the mafia (though all Marseille politicians are at some point... Jean-Claude Gaudin is no better and perhaps worst - Yann Piat affair), he was a relatively good guy in my book, if not mostly for his respectable de-centralization efforts.

Both. I can't vote FF to a mafioso and a crook.

Still, I find the guy very interesting.

[Хahar 🤔]

5.01%

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5.01%

rofl

Go Kennedy!

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

FF

Sorry for him for his humiliative loss in 1969

[big bad fab]

Corrupt guy.
Was mayor for too long, letting Marseilles slip backwards.
Used the ministry of the Interior for his own affairs, sometimes.

But, sure, he was efficient in building the decentralization.
And he was a moderate force inside the Socialist movement.

Overall HP

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Corrupt guy.
Was mayor for too long, letting Marseilles slip backwards.
Used the ministry of the Interior for his own affairs, sometimes.

But, sure, he was efficient in building the decentralization.
And he was a moderate force inside the Socialist movement.

Overall HP

Even all of this, that I personally don't know enough to say, it seems it rather remains a good image from him today, in France and in Marseille.

[Antonio the Sixth]

HP. Conservative on many issues, ol-fashioned left, plus quite corrupt. Never did anything great or good nationally.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Apart from being connected extremely closely with the mafia

...to the extent that mafia members were used as bodyguards by SFIO candidates in municipal elections for decades! But, yeah. That's as much "lol, Marseille" as 'owt else.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Concerning the mafia and Marseille, it's over now we're no more in '30s during the French connection or with Jacky le Belge or with I don't know which Corse dicking around...

There is still organized crime there, of course, but it seems now to be more of an ethnic mafia from ethnicities of the poor areas of the city, and it's more about drugs (especially cannabis and cocaine) than about corruption or racket, or stuffs like that, it may remain a bit of corrupt from some real estate promoters, but not a system, that are just small stuffs here or there, that's at least what it seems to me, we're not in south Italia, actually.