The four municipal candidates in Bordeaux were invited by LCI this Tuesday morning. - LCI screenshot

  • The political interview with Elisabeth Martichoux was relocated this Tuesday morning to Bordeaux, with four of the municipal candidates.
  • The candidates answered questions from readers of 20 Minutes, the show's partner.
  • The debates focused mainly on traffic and housing problems.

In the final stretch of the municipal campaign, the exchanges are tense between the candidates in Bordeaux, where a new second round is looming in the former bastion of Alain Juppe, elected in the first round since 1995.

This Tuesday, the political interview of Elizabeth Martichoux of the morning of LCI, which leaves to meet the candidates for the municipal elections in the cities with stakes, was relocated in Bordeaux. The candidates answered questions from readers of 20 Minutes , the show's partner.

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Unsurprisingly, the candidates were challenged on traffic and housing problems in the Bordeaux metropolis, victim of its attractiveness. Ludovic, 47, asked the city hall contenders what they thought of a ban on overtaking on the ring road for heavy goods vehicles. The outgoing mayor Nicolas Florian (LR-Modem) believes that it is better to prohibit their circulation during peak hours, by developing storage areas upstream and downstream. The environmental candidate Pierre Hurmic questions the feasibility of such car parks, recalling that "3,000 heavy goods vehicles per hour on the ring road during peak hours". He is in favor of a “deterrent toll” for these vehicles.

Thomas Cazenave, LREM candidate, agrees with the outgoing mayor to ban the circulation of trucks during peak hours but insists on the need for the Metropolis to recover management of the ring road, now operated by the State. "We have been trying for ten years," hisses Nicolas Florian. For Philippe Poutou (NPA-LFI), it is necessary to revive a real public rail transport and a piggyback activity to get these trucks off the roads. To lower traffic on the ring road, he also promotes free public transport, saying his list "takes the climate crisis seriously".

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Another 20 Minutes reader, Catherine, 30, points out the difficulties of finding accommodation in the Gironde capital: "it became Paris without Paris salaries". The outgoing mayor, who does not want to be "the mayor who is no longer building", wants to offer intermediate housing at 3,000 euros per m2 by forcing operators on exit prices.

Pierre Hurmic believes that the majority practiced a supply policy presented as having to lower prices: "and the reverse happened". He proposes to set up a public housing service and to experiment with rent control. This last measure is described as a "gas factory" by the candidate En Marche who wants to "master the land" to fight against the exclusion of the city from the "middle classes". The candidate of Bordeaux in struggles (NPA-LFI) believes that the supervision of rents is a necessity and proposes the requisition of vacant housing that he estimates at 11,000 in the city of Bordeaux, referring to the figures of the INSEE.

If the outgoing mayor concedes transitions to be carried out in the years to come, he defends the record of his illustrious predecessor. The other candidates defend more or less radical alternative projects after the Juppe era.

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