The Academy of Aix-Marseille could absorb that of Nice? The government indeed has plans to eliminate the Academy of Nice. This change would take place as part of territorial reform.
Local elected officials are crying “crime of lesa maiestatis,” claiming these reforms are ones that change nothing! And while Christian Estrosi has written to the Prime Minister to express his opposition, Eric Ciotti is launching an attack.
Yesterday afternoon, the chamber of the departmental hotel was the scene of a sit-in composed of elected officials (almost all of them, frozen like wallpaper) along with a few affiliates to protest against this project, which the President of the Departmental Council calls “scandalous.”
The reason? He asserts that it is “the creation of an administrative entity far too large, leading to a distance from management and decision-making locations for the citizens of the Alpes-Maritimes, administrative burdens, and a lack of consideration for Nice.”
In fact, and more simply, it is a matter of “propaganda against propaganda” between the two strongmen of the local right-wing, each seeking to capitalize on this potential reform of the school organization to attack the government by tugging at the heartstrings of Nice and Azurean patriotic sentiment and the rivalry between the two major southern cities, Marseille and Nice.
