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Certainly, the Mayor of Nice has a problem with numbers. Skillfully underestimating the cost of future projects for the city of Nice (for example, tram line 2), he also has a strong tendency to confuse job cuts with job creations.
Claiming in his interview today (November 17) with Nice-Matin to have created thousands of jobs as the Minister of Industry, Christian Estrosi is not telling the truth.
If INSEE announced on November 16 that merchant payroll employment increased by 0.3% in France in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the previous quarter, INSEE also specifies: “Employment continued to decline in industry (-0.3%) but less sharply than in the second quarter (-0.5%). Industry thus lost 8,900 jobs in the third quarter, and 82,400 over one year.”
82,400 jobs lost in the industry over the past 12 months alone, over 200,000 since the beginning of the crisis, these are the real figures.
Christian Estrosi, a true magician with numbers, is also adept with social issues. Thus, his desire to foster a reflection on social cohesion, at a time when the city of Nice is about to approve a local urban development plan that causes real urban segregation, is just smoke and mirrors.
Neither a workers’ minister nor a social Gaullist, Christian Estrosi, like his mentor Nicolas Sarkozy, serves only the interests of the Fouquet’s clique…
Robert Injey
Departmental Secretary of the PCF 06
Municipal Councillor of Nice
