Saint-Ouen (AFP)
Valérie Pécresse, reelected at the end of June at the head of Ile-de-France and potential candidate for the presidential election, launches a large part of the program for the 2021-2028 term on Wednesday, the opposition linking this "rush" to the primary from the right.
Only three weeks after her wide re-election (45.92%) during a quadrangular, the elected representative of Vélizy-Villacoublay (Yvelines) launches, as she announced, most of her mandate projects during a first plenary session that promises to drag on into the evening.
Renunciation of advances paid to 7,000 companies indebted by the crisis, creation of a strategic investment fund, a regional health mutual and a regional youth bank, aid for the purchase of a vehicle or a less polluting boiler, or even an anti-burglary alarm, are included in this program.
At the Regional Council, which sits in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) where she moved it during her first term, Valérie Pécresse now benefits from a right-wing and reinforced center majority (125 advisers out of 209) .
The adoption of the five reports containing "nearly 80% of the measures of the program" is therefore not a shadow of a doubt, after that of the administrative account 2020 and especially of the supplementary budget 2021, which marks according to Ms. Pécresse "the coup for sending the mandate ".
The left opposition, but also the RN, denounced this hasty timetable.
"You could have voted for them in September, it would have been more loyal and democratic" than in the middle of summer, protested the elected RN Wallerand de Saint-Just.
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"When in 18 days (Pécresse was formally re-elected on July 2, Editor's note), you launch 80% of your project, it is either that he is rikiki, or that you are lying", reacted Julien Bayou (EELV), questioned by the press.
"We will quickly see that it is a bit of both".
For the one who was the opponent of Ms. Pécresse in the second round, "we have a president of the region who is already a candidate for the presidency - or for the primary of the right - and who truly abandons Ile-de-France" .
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For Benoît Hamon (Génération.s), the president (Libres!) Proceeds precisely "by haste" in order to "distinguish herself from (her) competitors in the primary".
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On Tuesday, the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy participated in a meeting of his former LR party aimed at setting rules for appointing a single candidate for 2022.
"All the promises we made, we must put them in place very quickly to restore confidence with the Ile-de-France residents", two-thirds of whom shunned the ballot, replied the president to the press.
This applies to operational measures quickly, such as lowering the price of school canteens for the most disadvantaged, such as "long-term projects", underlines Ms. Pécresse, who quotes the regional agency for community service or recruitment. of 1,000 additional security guards in transport.
"All this will take time, we must start the dynamic", she assumes, taking the example of the move to Saint-Ouen.
To the Communist group, which accuses it of having "confiscated" 483 million euros - the budget surplus for 2020 -, it replies that it is precisely the "exemplary financial situation" which allows the "new historic effort" of the budget.
And to the group Ile-de-France in common (socialists and allies) for whom "the regional right has not planned any major measure in the direction of public high schools", whether on "the lack of places, the dilapidation of many premises and the difficulties linked to the management of the pandemic ", Valérie Pécresse replies that" the return to school is totally under control ".
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"The high school renovation plan adopted in 2017 was completed last year, with six billion euros and 1,000 projects in progress," she says: "Everything is underway".
Not really the opinion of the Ile-de-France group in common, for which she "abandoned high schools during her previous mandate" and "already seems totally absorbed by her personal ambitions for 2022".
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