- Jeanne Barseghian was the “green and citizen” candidate for the mayor's chair in the municipal councils of Strasbourg. She won in the 2nd round, June 28.
- While welcoming significant environmental progress, the elected official also castigates the “glaring inconsistencies” of the outgoing municipal majority.
- The candidate saw her election and the take-off of green themes in the campaign as "a bottom wave" in the face of the "climatic, social and democratic" emergency.
Edit: The environmental candidate was elected mayor of Strasbourg this Sunday, June 28. In November, we painted her portrait, when she announced her candidacy
Jeanne Barseghian was certain, "Strasbourg can have a green mayor". Driven by this conviction and reinforced by the good results of the Greens in the Europeans, this 39-year-old eco-advisor, since October 5, has embodied the “green and citizen” candidacy of the Alsatian capital for municipal elections.
After a term in office, the Eurometropolis advisor - responsible for the social and solidarity economy, as well as waste reduction since 2014, now has the experience of a mandate in the operational affairs of the community. Without being directly in business since she did not have an assistant mandate.
"It must prove itself in terms of leadership"
A very practical position to criticize the record of the outgoing majority. If it welcomes significant environmental progress such as the breathable city plan or the implementation of health indicators in public policies, elected officials also castigate "glaring inconsistencies": excessive urbanization, extensions and support plans " suddenly millions ”in commercial areas North and Vigie, pursuit of the GCO, the household waste incinerator…
What do his elected colleagues think of his candidacy? "We have nothing to say about her because we do not know her," mocks an elected official of the opposition. "He is someone whose skills are recognized but who must prove himself in terms of leadership", nuances one of his opponents under the seal of anonymity.
A deficit of image which Jeanne Barseghian wants to make a strength. The candidate sees her election and the take-off of green themes in the campaign as "a bottom wave" in the face of the "climatic, social and democratic" emergency. The three strong themes of the program on its list, built with the different sensitivities that have joined the movement. With members of the Citizen Lab, including the vice-president of the Eurometropolis in charge of housing Syamak Agha Babaei, as well as the Place Publique collective and its manager, health assistant Alexandre Feltz.
"You have to exercise power differently"
By the way, she takes the opportunity to scratch her colleagues and now opponents. “We can no longer be satisfied with four male elected officials who make decisions between them on the top floor of the administrative center. Power must be exercised differently. ” In his viewfinder: the first deputy Alain Fontanel, past LREM but also the president of the Eurometropolis Robert Herrmann, the socialists Mathieu Cahn and Philippes Bies.
"Jeanne comes to lighten us with her smile"
Has the elected representative ever been sexist in politics? "When I started my mandate, I felt that I had to prove myself more than my male colleagues," notes Jeanne Barseghian. “Once, I arrived at a meeting to negotiate a budget and a male colleague launched me:" Jeanne comes to lighten us with her smile ". He quickly lost his when I started the negotiations, ”she recalls. If she notices that certain men have become "more careful in their words", she always observes "inappropriate behavior" of elected officials towards female agents of the city, which deeply indignantly appeals to her.
"The measures that are taken in city council are very little if not at all discussed with the citizens upstream", continues Jeanne Barseghian, who wants to go further in participatory budgets or citizen petitions, despite the very relative success of these experiments . "It is not enough to decree citizen participation, it is also necessary to put the means into it," said the candidate, who defends the concept. "In municipal council, when you have childminders who testify to their difficulties, it changes the content of the debate". She convinced the people of Strasbourg.
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