Bordeaux (AFP)
Vincent Feltesse, former political adviser to President François Hollande and unhappy rival Alain Juppé for the mayor of Bordeaux in 2014, announced Wednesday that he was again candidate in the municipal elections of 2020 for Bordeaux.
Mr. Feltesse, formerly a member of the Socialist Party he left earlier this year, has "made the choice to leave the party," said the press in the press this former president of the Urban Community of Bordeaux (2007-2014 ) who has traveled the city for months with a collective "Bordeaux Metropole des Quartiers".
Mr. Feltesse, 52 years old, financial magistrate at the Court of Auditors, is the third local personality to declare himself a candidate in the municipal ballot with Nicolas Florian (LR), 50 years old, successor of Alain Juppé, and Thomas Cazenave, 41 years old, invested by The Republic in the Marche.
The candidate has developed his "vision" on the main lines of his campaign, especially around environmental issues where "the emergency is there", mobility and housing in a congested regional capital and where real estate prices soaring.
Mr. Feltesse who wants to go "beyond the greening" of the city because the environment also concerns health, water, food, pesticides, etc., proposes to launch a "large loan of one billion d "euros" to "go fast", in a single term.
On housing, he wants a moratorium on major real estate transactions because "the policy of the offer does not work", offers a framework "harder" Airbnb, the framing of rents. In terms of mobility, he pleads for "the gradual end of the automobile in the city center" and a metropolitan RER.
Mr. Feltesse, regional councilor and member of the city council of Bordeaux, was mayor of Blanquefort, city of the suburbs of Bordeaux, from 2001 to 2012. He had been beaten in 2014 on the first turn by Mr. Juppé of which he greeted Wednesday a review "over 25 years globally good".
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