The candidate EELV to the mayor of Paris David Belliard questioned Saturday in Toulouse the ecologist fiber of the current leader Anne Hidalgo who would not be "a green mayor" but only "a mayor who calls himself green".
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"The question is: Anne Hidalgo, it's a green mayor? No it's a mayor who says he is green," said David Belliard, during a plenary devoted to municipal during the Summer Days of Greens in Toulouse. The head of the ecologist list at the Municipalities enumerated a certain number of advances during the mandate of Anne Hidalgo, whether it is the pedestrianization of the Berges de Seine, the bicycle plan, the extension of bio in the canteens, or improving the situation of migrants.
But these positive points are to the credit of environmentalists, partners of Mrs. Hidalgo within the current majority, said the leader of the group EELV to the Council of Paris. "The environmental assessment of Anne Hidalgo is the balance of environmentalists," he said, lamenting that the socialists sometimes appropriate it.
... but also bad choices
On the contrary, he regretted a certain number of choices to be made by the socialists, sometimes allied to the right: the Triangle Tower and a "Small Defense" project in the 12th arrondissement, the organization of the Olympic Games in 2024 or a competition of electric formula in Paris, decision to continue to finance the incinerator of Ivry ...
Anne Hidalgo multiplies ecological projects while the municipal elections of March 2020 are looming, announcing in particular the all-round revegetation of the streets and squares of the capital, the creation of "urban forests" or by decreeing the city "in a climate emergency ".