- The mayor of the central city has always been the president of the Toulouse metropolis.
- For the outgoing, Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR supported by LREM), it is a question of representativeness of the city center but also of ease in terms of management.
- Some candidates are in favor of not combining these two executive positions.
In Strasbourg, Aix-Marseille or Bordeaux, the one who holds the reins of the city is not the same who is in charge of the metropolis. Two-headed governance that has never been used in the Pink City.
Already at the time of the district, the ancestor of the metropolis, Dominique Baudis, the mayor of Toulouse, presided over the destinies of this association of municipalities. Since then, it has been instituted that whoever has the keys to the Capitol is also the one who holds those from the metropolis. And no mayor has departed from it, not even the socialist Pierre Cohen between 2008 and 2014, who transformed the urban community into an urban community. But this vision is far from being shared by all the candidates.
Absolute majority
For the outgoing mayor, Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR supported by LREM), if nothing is written in stone, this double cap is due to "an objective reason". "Toulouse is one of the six metropolises where the city center represents the absolute majority, here it is 63% of elected officials who are Toulousains", notes the one who also presides over the destinies of Toulouse Métropole.
But beyond this mathematical fact, he sees in this accumulation the way to avoid problems. “As president of urban France, I note that when the mayor of the center city is not also the president of the metropolis, there are problems and rivalries, including when they are on the same side. And then pooling makes it possible to have a single office and a single director general of services instead of two, ”notes the candidate.
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“It is not compulsory, but it is the city center which provides the most seats, there is a logic. Then we need a territorial pact that respects the 36 other municipalities of the metropolis, ”says the socialist candidate Nadia Pellefigue who hopes to be both the first mayor of Toulouse and the first president of the metropolis.
Accumulation question
If he accesses the mayor's chair, Franck Biasotto, dissident of the outgoing majority supported by the MoDem, assures him, he will not “cumulate”. “It is not conceivable to share between Toulouse and the 36 other municipalities. It is necessary to be mayor of the fourth city of France full time ”, he pleads.
A spirit of “non-cumulation” shared by the head of the Citizen Archipelago, Antoine Maurice. "For the moment, the question is not settled if it will be a Toulouse elected representative or one from another commune. But we are attached to a vision of the city of Toulouse that does not impose on others. We have in any case a regret, that the election to the metropolis is not done by direct universal suffrage ”, affirms the outgoing EELV city councilor.
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