- Anne Hidalgo surrounded herself with a team of 37 assistants for her second term as mayor of Paris.
- A figure that made the opposition jump, which points to the cost of secretarial work, equipment and also service cars.
- The city of Paris has a fleet of 2,500 vehicles including sedan type cars but also bicycles or motorized two-wheelers. This pool tends to be reduced.
The first days of this second mandate were already synonymous with criticism. After being officially elected on Friday during a vote at the Paris Council, where she collected 96 votes out of 163 voters, Anne Hidalgo presented her deputies, attracting the wrath of certain opponents. Around the town councilor will gravitate a squad of 37 assistants against 21 at the start of their previous mandate. A figure that made the opposition jump in the person of Marie-Claire Carrère-Gée, president of the group Les Républicains et Indépendants (LRI) during the previous mandate.
“Barely elected, Anne Hidalgo's first decision in Paris is to appoint 37 assistants. Cost: 65 million euros. Parisians and Parisian businesses, many of whom can no longer make ends meet after Covid-19, will appreciate, ”she reacted on Twitter. In its calculation, it includes the creations of a cabinet for each new assistant with "the secretariats, equipment and services of the fleet of service vehicles and drivers," she explains to the Parisian . And beyond this number of assistants, whose cost and staff numbers, should be controlled according to the town hall, this subject of the service cars of the town hall of Paris available to elected officials comes back on the carpet while he was already under fire from critics during the campaign.
"The future mayor of Paris will no longer have to travel by car with a driver"
“I think we should restrict the municipal executive to ten assistants. We must drastically reduce the size of the executive and also the number of staff in the mayor's office. Today, there are more deputies to the mayor of Paris than ministers in the government. This is not normal. Finally, the future mayor of Paris and his teams will no longer have to travel by car with driver, as is currently the case. It is a question of exemplarity ”, explained to 20 Minutes , in October 2018, Gaspard Gantzer (Mouvement Parisiennes, Parisiens, then LREM). And the subject did not remain a dead letter.
During the campaign, the first LREM candidate Benjamin Griveaux wanted to “sell the 500 official vehicles of the City of Paris” to save money. “There are too many official cars and drivers. It makes no sense at this time of the climate emergency, "he told Le Figaro . The second LREM candidate, Agnès Buzyn had put a layer on it during the June 17 debate on France 3. "There are too many company cars", assured the candidate. A debate that was already carried by environmentalists during the previous term. “Elected officials must be exemplary. When you see a lot of them leaving by car from the Paris Council at 9 p.m., this is not normal. They could very well take public transport or Vélib '! », Insisted David Belliard (EELV) in 2017, now the new deputy mayor, in charge of transport. So what about it?
60 sedans at the service of borough mayors or the central executive
Since 2010, these are no longer "function" cars but "service" cars. In other words, it is impossible to use the vehicle outside working hours. Currently, the technical department of municipal automobile transport manages a fleet of 2,500 vehicles, including 60 of the sedan type, making 18,000 journeys per year, serving in particular district mayors and members of the central executive, specifies Le Parisien . Note that there are in this "pool" of 2,500 vehicles, bicycles, motorized two-wheelers but also vehicles for city officials for cleanliness or security missions, says the town hall. And the future of these 60 cars (which are hybrid or electric) with driver for the elected officials, seems less and less priority.
"We tend to reduce the sail of this pool", we are told to the City Hall requested by 20 Minutes , stating that this fleet is doomed to be "reduced in the long term" and that "the drivers who are retiring are not replaced ”.
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