Ladislas Polski presented his New Year’s wishes in front of nearly 200 people in La Trinité, surrounded by elected officials from the opposition team he leads on the municipal council, and in the presence of several departmental political figures.
He first focused his speech on municipal issues: La Trinité, the fifth largest municipality in the Nice-Côte d’Azur Metropolis, recently made headlines following the mayor’s decision to forgo the traditional year-end illuminations, a budgetary restriction measure that caused much commotion.
Ladislas Polski delivered a harsh critique of the municipal management, reminding that the current mayor has been accountable for nearly 16 years, initially as the deputy in charge of finances and then as the chief magistrate: La Trinité has returned to the Alert Network, which includes French municipalities in the most concerning financial situations.
Emphasizing the need for La Trinité to make its voice heard, and denouncing the risk of accelerated urban sprawl in a valley already suffocated by traffic difficulties, Ladislas Polski commended the presence of many Trinitarians representing the community’s “active forces,” who are involved in neighborhood associations or sports clubs.
He expressed his intention to continue championing a “constructive and combative” opposition in La Trinité until 2020.
Along the way, he recalled one of his recent efforts as a regional councilor in the previous mandate, which led to the inclusion of funding in the State-Region contract for improving the Nice-Breil train line that serves La Trinité: a mandate from which he also derives personal satisfaction for having created the “Regional Health Houses” now spread across the entire regional territory.
As the regional president of the Citizen and Republican Movement and national secretary in charge of foreign and European matters, Ladislas Polski reiterated his lifelong commitment, initiated alongside Jean-Pierre Chevènement, summarized as follows: “for equality among citizens, the authority of public power, secularism.”
Not involved in the primary elections of the Belle Alliance Populaire, the MRC has appointed a presidential candidate, Bastien Faudot, who has yet to gather the 500 signatures needed to qualify as a candidate but continues to voice the stance of a republican left committed to national sovereignty.
In a department like Alpes-Maritimes, even more so than elsewhere, Ladislas Polski stresses the need for citizens to unite, beyond all political sensitivities, around strong and just republican values.
