Metro, security and big fish. In Rennes, Carole Gandon has ambition

• The running candidate Carole Gandon presented several running matees on Monday evening.
• The young woman hopes to seduce the Rennais who had massively voted for Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
• Its Reveler Rennes list focuses on improving public transport, better security and increased consultation with residents.

She had been relatively discreet so far. But the new year seemed to give wings to Carole Gandon. Monday evening, the candidate of La République en Marche unveiled the first 16 commitments of her list to Reveal Rennes and displayed some of her recruits for the municipal elections. “We have done ant work so far by going to markets or going door to door. I have the feeling that it is paying off, ”said the candidate.

Two months before the first round of the election, the young woman first lifted the veil on her bodyguard. In addition to Jean-Emile Gombert, the former president of Rennes 2 University, Carole Gandon can count on the support of some "big fish". Henri-Noël Ruiz, boss of Audiar, the public planning agency, Olivier Dulucq, adviser to the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand or Xavier Hébert, who directed real estate development at Giboire, joined the young candidate . “There is a feeling of stagnation in Rennes and the feeling that all the major projects have been completed. We must respond to security or traffic emergencies, ”says Jean-Emile Gombert.

Triple the number of CCTV cameras

To seduce an electorate rather anchored on the left but which had voted overwhelmingly in favor of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, the list of La République en Marche relies on a triptych security-transport-transparency. “There is an exasperation in the face of laissez-faire on the issue of incivility. It is valid in all districts and for all generations, ”says the walker. To answer this, it proposes to triple the number of video surveillance cameras, to strengthen the municipal police and to create a green brigade circulating by bicycle or on horseback to "prevent incivility".

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More curious, the candidate proposes an extension of the two metro lines in order to reduce the congestion of the ring road. An option however left aside by the current president of Rennes metropolitan Emmanuel Couet because of its cost and its time of implementation. “The metro is a historic choice for Rennes. It is a heavy infrastructure but which must be carried by the metropolis to decongest the ring road ”, assumes Carole Gandon, who also announces the creation of a 360-degree bus line to connect the peripheral municipalities. Areas in which the candidate plans to create activity. "What creates congestion is the densification of employment in Rennes," says his running mate Olivier Dulucq.

"Ask the opinion of the inhabitants"

In this draft program distributed at the end of the year, the list values ​​the transparency of its political action and promises citizens' votes to consult the inhabitants. "We sometimes faced very clear deficits in concertation," attacked Carole Gandon, who notably cited the development of the future Palais du Commerce in République or the renovation of the Blosne district. "By asking the opinion of the inhabitants before designing the project, we avoid contestation," promise the walkers.

In a campaign undoubtedly delayed by the social protest around the pension reform, the candidate supported by the government advances with its certainties. To the point of being able to reverse 40 years of socialism in Rennes? " More than ever ".

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• Rennes
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