While Robert Injey aims to be controversial: “Although very talkative, the incumbent mayor-candidate is completely silent on one subject: The budget of the Mรฉtropole Nice Cรดte d’Azur,” Patrick Allemand goes even further by speaking of an “Opacity surrounding the 2014 budget of the Mรฉtropole Nice Cรดte d’Azur.”
For the FdG candidate: “So silent that the community councilors were deprived of the budget orientation debate and the vote on the preliminary budget. This situation is at the very least grotesque during this electoral period where promises abound. Nothing about where we really stand financially, not a word. It is the blind spot of the mayor-candidate’s campaign.
If the vote on the preliminary budget of the city of Nice had been the occasion for a surreal session where the deputies intervened, one after the other, to praise the ‘brilliant action’ of the mayor-president (Seven hours of monologue from the UMP majority before the opposition could express themselves!), it is total silence on the Mรฉtropole’s budget.”
And for good reason, according to him, the largest part of the debt lies there. The billion mark has already been reached, and “with the absurdity of the tunnel for the tramway line 2, we will quite rapidly reach between 1.3 to 1.5 billion by 2016. This is hardly something to admit a few weeks before an election. And the candidate mayor prefers to communicate about the packaging (the green corridor) rather than the content (the debt). If by chance the tunnel option is not abandoned, the bill will be very heavy in the end.
Now that he has declared his campaign, will the mayor-candidate finally dare to have the debate?”
In an attempt to move things forward, the socialist candidate has taken the initiative: “I wrote to the president of the Mรฉtropole Nice Cรดte d’Azur on March 3 to express my surprise that the Metropolitan Council has still not been convened to debate budgetary guidelines nor to vote on the 2014 budget.
In the midst of an electoral campaign, while the people of Nice will have to choose their future mayor, it is unacceptable for the incumbent to hide his intentions regarding taxation and additional debt.
I condemn this lack of transparency and call on the people of Nice to mobilize to put an end to these methods on March 23 and 30.”
Will he be heard by Christian Estrosi… but especially not by the people of Nice?
