The Socialist Mayor of Marseille believes that the provisions voted on Wednesday, December 8 at first reading do not settle “none of the malfunctions he denounced for a few months.
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“It’s a very, very bad signal”. A few hours after the vote by the National Assembly of the amendment to the law “3ds” (“differentiation, decentralization, deconcentration and simplification”) relating to the reform of the metropolis Aix-Marseille Provence, the socialist mayor of the second city From France, Benoît Payan, shows his anger. “This reform is a joke. A mountain that gives birth to a mice,” he explains to the world, when he has to welcome Monday, Monday, December 13, Prime Minister Jean Castex and the Minister of Cohesion. Territories and relations with local authorities, Jacqueline GOURAULT.
“In September, the President of the Republic came here to say strong things about the governance of this metropolis. Three months later, the Government declined on all the points mentioned”, estimates the leader of the Spring Marseille , which a few weeks ago thanked the government for its financial boost of 254 million euros at the Renovation Plan of the Marseillais Schools.
In his river speech on September 2, where he presented the different chapters of the “Marseille en grand” plan, Emmanuel Macron had put in the balance of the financial aid of the state, the need to change governance within From the metropolis Aix-Marseille Provence (GPA), a set created in 2016, bringing together 92 communes and 1.8 million inhabitants. The President of the Republic then invited the local policies to overcome “their chicayas” and considered that the community led by Martine Vassal (the Republicans) passed “far too much time to redistribute” [its financing to municipalities] and had trouble “Wear projects”.
After several months of tight exchange, carried out in particular by M me vassal, the Minister of Cohesion of the Territories and the Prefect of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region Christophe Mirman, the MEPs voted on Tuesday in the evening the amendment that poses the basis for a new governance. The disappearance of territorial councils – legacy of the six old intercommunities – there is computer, and the skills of the metropolis more clearly defined. A reform that does not satisfy the mayor of Marseille, who, since the victory of the Spring Marseille, has never ceased to emphasize what he sees as a political inconsistency: that the major skills concerning his city are held by the metropolis , driven by a line that was beaten to the municipal. Some amendments pushed by Benoît Payan but rejected by the Assembly thus proposed a return to Marseille of the management of ports, habitat and housing, companies of mixed economy and roads as a whole, whether it is or not metropolitan interest.
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