- On Wednesday March 4, seven candidates for mayor of Paris debated on LCI in the program "La grande confrontation", in partnership with 20 Minutes and RTL.
- Anne Hidalgo, Rachida Dati, Agnès Buzyn, Cédric Villani, Danielle Simonnet, David Belliard and Serge Federbusch spoke in particular about cleanliness, safety and ecology.
- 20 Minutes verified some of the claims made during the debate.
Eleven days before the first round of the municipal elections, on March 15, seven candidates for mayor of Paris debated their plans for the capital on the LCI stage - in partnership with 20 Minutes and RTL - during the program "La great confrontation. "
Cleanliness, security, assessment of the current mandate… We verified certain assertions made during this evening which opposed Anne Hidalgo (socialist), Rachida Dati (LR), Agnès Buzyn (LREM), Cédric Villani (ex-LREM), David Belliard (EELV), Danielle Simonnet (LFI) and Serge Federbusch (supported by RN).
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What Danielle Simonnet said: " Only 40% of the cycle paths promised at the start of the mandate have been completed"
Announced in 2015, the city of Paris's bicycle plan provided for the construction, by 2020, of 61 kilometers of development so that the bicycle spends from 5% to 15% of trips within the capital by then .
In January 2019, according to the count of the association Paris en selle, at the origin of an observatory of the progress of the bicycle plan consultable online, only 28 kilometers of tracks had been created. However, she still hoped to see half of the plan completed by 2020.
According to the latest figures from its observatory, "the progress of the construction of cycling infrastructure during the term" is now 42%.
What Rachida Dati said, in response to Danielle Simonnet who accused her of having had "54 minutes of presence in 6 years at the Paris council": "I am present, we are a group and we share the speaking time "
The absenteeism of the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris in the Paris Council has been criticized by Danielle Simonnet as by David Belliard.
If the figure of 54 minutes of presence in six years of mandate may seem surprising, it nevertheless corresponds (within a few minutes) to the count made by his opponents of The Republic on the march during this campaign. According to their report, the mayor of the 7th arrondissement did indeed, in six years, 20 public interventions in the hemicycle, with a total duration of 57 minutes, as reported by Le Monde a few days ago.
In the same article, the line of defense of Rachida Dati was however slightly different since it claimed a "strategic" approach to this meeting of elected officials: "She does not come to make blah. What is important to him is not to spend hours defending or listening to series of wishes that often come to nothing, but to participate in important votes, ”said Emmanuelle Dauvergne, LR counselor for the 7th arrondissement and close to Rachida Dati.
His absenteeism had already been the subject of an article by the Parisian in July 2019, which cited several Parisian elected officials ironically about his rare presence but generally noticed by his interventions. The daily pointed out a contradiction: "Yet, according to the records of the attendance sheets for the year 2018 that we obtained, the mayor of the seventh would have been absent ... only half a morning the year latest. "While evoking a potential explanation put forward at the Town Hall:" It is enough that she is there in the early morning and early afternoon to sign off ", also taken up by a borough mayor:" He m 'has already happened to meet her in the morning, in sporty clothes, come and sign the attendance register and leave immediately without having even set foot in the hemicycle ”.
What Anne Hidalgo said: "The police spend 2.5% of their time on the ground in Paris"
In the middle of a debate - quite lively - on the subject of the creation of a municipal police, Anne Hidalgo pointed out the low presence of the national police in the streets of Paris, citing this very low percentage of time of presence in the streets of the capital.
A figure already advanced by the outgoing mayor during a campaign meeting last week, and already verified by 20 Minutes at that time. This 2.5% is taken from a report by the Court of Auditors dated December 19, 2019, devoted to the Paris Prefecture of Police.
"The share of activity devoted to patrols and anti-delinquency operations shows the most marked decrease, to represent only 2.51% of the hourly potential" in Paris and the inner suburbs, noted the document about these operations of patrols that have been divided by three in seven years.
What Cédric Villani said: " Public officials in the city work 1,552 hours a year instead of the 1,607 regulations"
Do the municipal agents of the city of Paris really work their 35 hours a week? No, according to Cédric Villani, who takes up here an argument already advanced in early February.
He explained at the time to our colleagues at LCI to rely on a document from the Court of Auditors dated March 2018 on "the law and practices of the status of employees of the City of Paris". They benefit from a special status which gives them the right to derogations, in particular on working time. And which leads, according to the Court of Auditors, to 1,552 actual working hours per year instead of the 1,607 in force.
However, the harmonization of their number of hours with the rest of the public service is planned by the beginning of the year 2021, according to a legal obligation to which the current municipality affirms that it will comply in case of re-election.
What Danielle Simonnet said about Anne Hidalgo : " You were not in favor of the Olympic Games when you were elected in 2014" and what Anne Hidalgo replied : "It didn't was not a subject of the municipal »
In 2014, when she was a candidate for mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo had expressed her reservations about the idea of organizing the Olympic Games in Paris. Asked about being in favor of such a project, she replied: "Not really today, because the conditions are first of all the athletes, the French Olympic committee fully welded, I think they want. […] The Games are expensive, including the bid itself is expensive, and the expensive Games I think are no longer relevant at all ”. "I will work on this file if I am mayor of Paris but I want guarantees", had also specified the future mayor of Paris.
In November 2014, a few months after her election, Anne Hidalgo reacted to François Hollande's critical remarks about being too careful with a tweet: "3 essential conditions for the candidacy: ethics and transparency, a new model economic, environmental requirement. "
3 essential conditions for the application: ethics and transparency, a new economic model, environmental requirements. #JO
- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) November 7, 2014 What David Belliard said: " There is a deficit of public toilets in Paris: there are 400 free public toilets for a city of more than 2 million inhabitants"
According to city hall statistics, Paris has 435 free sanisettes. By adding the 300 toilets and urinals available in Parisian gardens and the thirty or so similar devices on the banks of the Seine, we arrive at a total of more than 700 toilets.
What Serge Ferbusch said: "There was an advertisement" Refugees welcome "in English, Arabic and French, which told [migrants] to come since 2015, it was broadcast by the city hall of Paris"
Invited by David Pujadas to give more details on this subject, the candidate claimed to have the document with him and to be able to show it if necessary.
A guide for “welcoming refugees to Paris”, published by the city of Paris, was available in 2016, one year after the start of the migration crisis. If its cover included a mixture of words in French, English and Arabic, its content was however well written in the language of Molière. "This guide lists the various mechanisms in terms of asylum requests, learning the French language, social support […] It is a tool for professionals who work with refugees on a daily basis," explained Anne Hidalgo. in the preamble to this document listing various aid associations.
The mayor of Paris had also focused on the reception of refugees, from October 2015 to "be up to the challenge of welcoming the many migrants [arriving today] in Europe". Anne Hidalgo notably used the hashtag “refugees welcome” on Twitter in September 2015 - again with a visual mixing French, English and Arabic.
#Paris mobilized for refugees http://t.co/ysIV2KUY4U #refugeeswelcome #BienvenueAuxRefugies pic.twitter.com/1pdAjTGuXn
- Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) September 10, 2015Paris
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