Nicolas Florian, in Bordeaux on September 28, 2020 -
Mickaël Bosredon / 20 Minutes
Nicolas Florian denounced "a new municipal team which improvises".
He accuses the new mayor Pierre Hurmic of “dogmatism” and of having “militant postures”.
He recognizes that the shock was hard on June 28, but assures us that "we are opening a new era of our action".
The date is “symbolic.
Three months to the day after the defeat of June 28, Nicolas Florian (LR) held his first press conference on Monday as a leader of the opposition.
Surrounded by Nicolas Pereira, Marik Fetouh, Béatrice Sabouret, Fabien Robert, Géraldine Amouroux, and Guillaume Chaban-Delmas, who will form part of the ten members of the Bordeaux Ensemble group on the municipal council, he notably wanted to draw up on the eve of the municipal council, a first point on the action of the new majority.
"Give the good and the bad" to the new mayor Pierre Hurmic.
There have of course been many more bad than good.
"It is a new municipal team which improvises, and we could list a certain number of decisions taken with the cookie cutter, without preparation, without consultation", attacks the former mayor of Bordeaux.
"The publicity of the municipal project before the elections was a bit false"
He “nevertheless grants them some extenuating circumstances: they have just assumed their responsibilities.
"" But still, he continues, there were decisions of rupture, and it is perhaps the first time in the municipal history of Bordeaux that we have such a cleavage between the majority, and the rest of the municipal council, with decisions marked by dogmatism, a mayor who has militant postures, more than manager.
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Nicolas Florian continues to scratch "a fairly illegible policy", with "procrastination.
I am not talking about retreating, but sometimes I have the impression that the publicity of the municipal project before the elections was a little false.
They sold orientations which today are treading water: suddenly it is on the car, we do not know if it is welcome or not in the city center, then it is on the parking lot, we do not still didn't quite understand what was going to happen with this income pricing project, which is not legal… ”
"We are curiously waiting to see the first" zero artificialization "building permit"
He continues on the Bordeaux stadium, the Girondins, town planning, housing policy.
"On town planning, will there be a moratorium or not?
We are also waiting with impatience and curiosity to see the first "zero artificialization" building permit.
"And his former first deputy Fabien Robert to emphasize that" 70 building permits have already been issued since July "by the new majority.
On safety, “the only point where we agree is that we have to increase the workforce, otherwise there will be real fractures.
We had wanted video protection, today we are told that it is useless.
On the arming of the municipal police, I had announced a real debate in the municipal council, today it is evacuated with a stroke of the pen.
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"We feel more what the mayor does not want to do, than what he wants to do"
Fabien Robert says he is “struck by the lack of vision.
After 25 years of opposition, we imagined that immediately there would be some rather striking acts.
I don't feel this breath.
We feel more what the mayor does not want to do, than what he wants to do.
The candidate-mayor is camping a little in his opponent's costume, it is very clear.
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And nothing on the Christmas tree controversy?
Of course it is, even if Nicolas Florian did not want to start with the subject which has shaken Bordeaux for the past two weeks.
“Beyond the motivation that drives this hasty decision, behind there is a petition that is organized, and the first reaction of the mayor is to say: 'I sit on it, they are only fascists and cathos "", denounces the opponent.
"We are not in purgatory"
The Bordeaux Ensemble group therefore intends to play its role of opponent to the municipal council, of course, and also to prepare for the aftermath.
“We want to propose a work-study program for 2026, announces Nicolas Florian.
We are well aware that the five years ahead of us will be many years, but we are not in purgatory.
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The defeated candidate recognizes that "the shock was hard on June 28, for me as for all those who accompanied me", that there are "still some scars and a few wounds" but that today "we are opening a new era of our action.
"" 2026 is a long time ago, but it is now that we are setting the foundations for a future work-study program.
I hope that we will not wait 25 years as was the case for our current mayor… ”
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