The LR mayor of Hyères, Jean-Pierre Giran, was elected Thursday at the head of the Toulon-Provence-Mediterranean metropolis, in the chair of Hubert Falco, sentenced in April for concealment of embezzlement of public funds and now ineligible, we learned from the metropolis. The only candidate in the running, Jean-Pierre Giran, 76, was elected by an absolute majority with 62 votes out of 81 voters.
A former professor of economics, he was also a deputy from 1997 to 2017 under the UMP label then Les Républicains and had been vice-president of this metropolis since 2020, which includes 12 municipalities on the Var coast, including Toulon, La Seyne-sur-Mer. and Hyeres.
Hubert Falco sentenced
Hubert Falco, 75, ex-member of the Les Républicains party, now rallied to Emmanuel Macron, was sentenced on April 14 by the Marseille criminal court to three years’ suspended imprisonment, with the confiscation of 55,000 euros seized from his account and a penalty of ineligibility of five years applicable immediately, despite the appeal lodged by Hubert Falco four days later.
On Wednesday, it was his former deputy to the city of Toulon, Josée Massi, who succeeded him as mayor of this capital city of Var after a vote by the city council.