The new mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola, alongside the prefect Pierre Dartout, during the ceremony of July 14. - Alain ROBERT / SIPA

  • "The 2020 budget will have to be gradually amended," specifies Michèle Rubirola, elected under the banner of Printemps Marseille.
  • The ecologist reallocated 50 million euros to schools and the fight against substandard housing.
  • "We must turn this page and look ahead, not behind," responded Martine Vassal, LR president of the metropolis.

It was the right that prepared this budget. But the left-wing majority elected as mayor of Marseille reallocated 50 million euros for schools and the fight against unworthy housing in this budget of the year, voted on Monday.

"This 2020 budget will certainly allow us to function, but it is not ours and it will have to be gradually amended," said Mayor Michèle Rubirola. The 2020 municipal budget of 1.5 billion euros, voted on Monday in city council and which should have been voted in March before the Covid-19 crisis, is "essentially" that prepared by the former right-wing majority.

"Inadmissible" working conditions

At the margin of the budget, the majority were able to increase investment spending by 50 million euros for the two priorities of the Marseille Spring campaign: improving the condition of schools (30 million euros) and fight against substandard housing (20 million euros).

Prefabricated overheated in summer, freezing in winter, unsanitary toilets, rat invasions: the schools file continued until the end of his mandate Jean-Claude Gaudin, LR mayor for twenty-five years. “When we have unacceptable working conditions, we cannot ask our kids to be exemplary citizens,” explained Pierre-Marie Ganozzi, assistant to the “school plan. "

The Vallier swimming pool is closed but as long as the kids from the Boulevard National school can learn to swim in class #Marseille # lacriseestrésorbée #ahlapluie pic.twitter.com/ekjzJIDVFk

- David Coquille (@DavidLaMars) December 21, 2019

Regarding unworthy housing, a question that has become explosive in Marseille after the murderous collapse, at the end of 2018, of two buildings in the city center, rue d'Aubagne, the new majority has provided 20 million euros.

"It's totally insufficient"

"It is totally insufficient but it is nevertheless a strong mark of the will to work immediately on this project," said Patrick Amico, deputy in charge of this issue in Marseille. 100,000 people still live in slums in Marseille. Of the 20 million affected, 10 million are reserved for the private park and 10 for the municipal park, ie the 51 buildings owned by the city.

"We are of course attached to schools and unworthy housing but we must turn this page and look ahead, do not look behind", launched Martine Vassal, president LR of the metropolis and the department.

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  • Martine Vassal
  • Bad housing
  • public school
  • Michele Rubirola
  • Marseilles