- Health, safety, transport ... Here are the most discussed topics in Nantes in view of the municipal election.
- A quick overview of the programs of Johanna Rolland, Laurence Garnier and Valérie Oppelt.
It is in a strange context that Nantes residents, as elsewhere in France, are again called to the polls on Sunday. While the campaign was almost nonexistent due to the health crisis, and more than three months have passed since the first round, it is difficult to have the lead in the municipal elections. Three days before the second round, 20 minutes offers a short recap of the programs of the three candidates still in the running in Nantes: Johanna Rolland (PS-EELV), Laurence Garnier (LR) and Valérie Oppelt (LREM).
Health, one of the essential themes now
Already present in the programs, especially in that of the outgoing mayor, health is now an essential theme for all candidates. The new CHU on the island of Nantes is causing disagreement since if LREM and PS support it, the right is more than ever upwind against the abolition of beds and positions planned in the project. Johanna Rolland, since allied with Julie Laernoes (EELV) who also fought this transfer, promises the creation of multidisciplinary health centers in the districts to relieve the emergencies. An idea also shared by Valérie Oppelt, who talks about nursing homes.
Security concerns Nantes residents
The health crisis has obscured it a little, but security remains an important concern for Nantes residents. Johanna Rolland maintains her proposal to recruit 70 municipal police officers, but also advocates for the development of the number of mediators and caretakers, an idea prompted by the Greens. Valérie Oppelt and Laurence Garnier, they raise the stakes with the promise to recruit respectively 85 and 115 municipal police officers. The candidate on the right would even like to arm them, "as in more than 50% of cities, to protect those who protect us". So that "the city finds its peace" LREM offers canine, motorized and night brigades.
After the crisis, mobilities to reinvent
The coronavirus epidemic has also strongly challenged mobility issues: bikes and pedestrians aspire to more space, and quickly! In addition to offering free public transport on weekends (and a 20% drop in the subscription price), Johanna Rolland also wants to pass the city at 30 km / h. An idea already defended in the first round by Julie Laernoes ... but also by Laurence Garnier, who imagines the creation of a "secure, wide and continuous" bicycle network. If the outgoing mayor abandoned his underground parking project in Little Holland, Valérie Oppelt promises to put the package on P + R with five new constructions of 800 places.
What about employment?
During the period between the two rounds marked by a health and economic crisis, the candidates strengthened their program around employment. Valérie Oppelt pleads for the support for the installation of local shops in all the districts while Laurence Garnier insists on the development of coworking spaces to develop telework and shift schedules. Attacked by her renunciation of the expansion of the Cité des Congrès, Johanna Rolland proposes to deploy a specific program of access to employment in priority neighborhoods, with the experimentation of business centers in these sectors.
The results of the first round here
Ecology in all ways
The PS-EELV alliance has necessarily further greened the program of the outgoing mayor. Zero plastic city, 100% homemade canteen dishes, energy renovation of 5,000 homes per year, etc. appear in the program of Johanna Rolland. The two other candidates are not to be outdone: vegetable gardens in schools and a new park on the island of Nantes for Laurence Garnier, “mini-forests” and collective composers for Valérie Oppelt… The two candidates know how to press where it hurts ensuring that they will overhaul the Tribag waste recycling system, which they say shows its limits.
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