Jacques Peyrat remains optimistic despite the polls placing the list he is leading below the 5% threshold of voting intentions.
“I don’t have this feeling in the daily contacts I have with people,” he says, adding in a polemical tone, “It could also be that I am the target of a discredit campaign… Don’t vote for Peyrat, anyway he won’t make it! I am familiar with these methods and I know who to address…”
In fact, the “old lion” is running a grassroots campaign that puts him in direct contact with the people of Nice and their concerns. At the forefront, there is job security, particularly for young people who cannot enter the workforce and those over 50 who are increasingly vulnerable.
Moreover, the former mayor of Nice expresses himself with a succinct phrase: “Anyone who does not have solving this problem at heart is not worthy of being the mayor of Nice.”
The figures speak for themselves: Nice is the city with the highest unemployment rate in the Alpes-Maritimes, which is the department with the highest unemployment rate in the PACA region, which in turn has the highest unemployment rate nationally.
A mono-sector economy (tourism and services) that the OIN operation in the Plaine du Var has so far only lightly touched, a “small metropolis devoid of enthusiasm except for protecting Mr. Estrosi’s electoral constituency (according to Jacques Peyrat), nothing suggests a change of gear to implement a robust and job-creating development.”
The winning formula? Here is the one proposed by Jacques Peyrat:
“This is the most serious problem of our city. To develop employment in our city, we need to stimulate local development by attracting new companies to a Metropolis that should expand from Cannes to Menton.
For this, we need to be able to offer lands from Sophia Antipolis to the Tercier plateau via the National Interest Operation I initiated in 2007 to develop the Plaine du Var over 10,000 ha.
To achieve this, we need to develop a dual transport system:
1ยฐ) Transport entrepreneurs and tourists to the Azurean territory by expanding the airport, doubling the A8 motorway, the TGV, cruises, and maritime freight by enlarging the port or developing a new port on another site.
2ยฐ) Develop the internal transport system, especially the tramway for line 2 on the surface and its extensions to La Trinitรฉ to the east and Sophia Antipolis to the west, line 3 to serve the Grand stadium and study line 4 from Pont Barla to Rimiez.
Tourism will not be forgotten by relocating the current Exhibition Palace to the National Interest Market site to attract major international professional fairs, as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry had planned.
In this internal transport, we will need to complete the AUS expressway connection with a tunnel to the west directly linked to the exit direction of the A8 motorway.
Finally, for this local development, we will need to consider two five-year plans to redo the hill road network where a third of the population resides.
Finally, a departmentally-based Azurean Metropolis cannot be satisfied with a prison such as it exists in the east of Nice and the absence of a Court of Appeal. I will seek pressure on the French government from all local elected officials to transfer the prison to the Plaine du Var and obtain the Court of Appeal that our attachment to France has caused us to lose.”
See you on Sunday for the decision at the polls…
