The municipal council was exceptionally chaired by the first deputy Benoît Payan -

Mathilde Ceilles / 20 Minutes

  • The Marseille city council met on Monday.

  • It was the first council where the newly elected left presented its first measures.

  • Both symbolic measures, such as the end of animals in circuses, but also others in opposition to the policy led by Jean-Claude Gaudin.

Left turn in sight.

This Monday, on the occasion of the third municipal council, the new municipal majority of Marseille, resulting from the left-wing coalition known as the Marseille Spring, wanted to mark its paw, three months after the election of the ecologist Michèle Rubirola to the head of the city.

And what if his leader could not chair the council, for health reasons, replaced on the perch by his first deputy Benoît Payan as provided by law.

“She should come back quickly in the middle of the week,” says Joël Canicave.

It is better and we hope it will be fully operational next week.

Of course we miss her, but above all, we are a team and a group.

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Embody the rupture

After a first municipal council election of the mayor, and a second of transition, the new majority seized the opportunity of this somewhat stormy meeting to embody the break with the 25 years of reign of Jean-Claude Gaudin and give, according to the words of the group president Joël Canicave, “the orientations of the mandate”.

More transparent allocation of places in crèche, employment of around a hundred municipal police officers, creation of public baths and showers for the most disadvantaged, end of the privatization of the Villa Valmer… None of the critics of the left opposition of the past who have splashed on the record of the former mayor of Marseille did not seem to have been forgotten in the agenda of this eight-hour council.

Policy of "bobos" or "quinoa"

The council also adopted a series of symbolic measures aimed at embodying the ecological renewal at the head of the city, such as the “wish” to ban animals in circuses that would like to stop over in France's second city.

"A decree should follow", promises the roost Benoît Payan after having denounced "a form of modern slavery".

A policy strongly criticized by the right-wing opposition, which sometimes sees it, according to the RN, a policy of "bobos" in the desire to develop cycling by the new majority, or a "quinoa" gadget for the LR mayor of the sector Lionel Royer-Perreault, at the turn of a report aimed at creating a citizens' assembly for more participatory democracy.

" You lost "

"How do we finance this intellectual phosphorescence? Asks the one who had a time candidate for mayor of Marseille.

At the end of these 90 days, we could have hoped for strong measures.

It's hard to get them!

It is a disillusion, a hoax of the Marseille Spring ”

“You have just seen after 90 days that you have lost, mocks Benoît Payan.

Indeed, that has changed.

It's a different path that has been taken.

"A chasm between right and left summed up in a sentence from Clemenceau, quoted by Julien Ruas, former assistant to Jean-Claude Gaudin, while he was trying to pay tribute to the former assistant to schools:" In politics, we succeed imbeciles and we are replaced by incompetents.

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