This topic had already been addressed by publishing (June 23) Robert Injey’s (PCF) reaction. Today, it is Patrick Allemand (Changer d’Ere/PS) who revisits it with a vehement accusation against the Mayor of Nice.
Since Christian Estrosi is an expert and astute politician, there must be a valid reason for this change in municipal (and soon metropolitan) regulations. Otherwise, why create problems with an opposition that is largely a minority and often reduced to a ‘flatus vocis’?
This raises the question of whether the policy of silence is most suitable, given the circumstances and the context: why pass for an autocrat for so little?
“During the City Council on Monday, June 25, and the Metropolitan Council on Friday, June 29, Christian Estrosi is preparing to amend the internal regulations of these two assemblies.
The amendment for the City Council includes only one point: it involves raising the threshold of the number of elected officials required to form a group, permitting them to speak within the Council. Although the “Changer d’ère” group is not affected by this change to the internal regulations, it is astonished and condemns this procedure.
Indeed, at the start of his term, Christian Estrosi lowered the threshold of elected officials, which was already five under Jacques Peyrat, to two, allowing PCF officials to form an independent group from the list on which they were elected, and also hoping that the elected members of Europe Ecology The Greens would do the same, which did not happen.
Today, he decides to return to five in the Nice City Council and create a threshold of eight at the Metropolitan level, where this latter threshold was also two within the Urban Community.
This decision is quite surprising. It demonstrates the little regard the Mayor of Nice has for the democratic expression of his opposition’s elected officials. By definition, the question of thresholds can only concern minorities. Worse, it shows that, for Mr. Estrosi, the question of representational threshold is not about democratic ethics. He uses it as a mere variable adjustment based on his current political needs.
At the time, it was about dividing the “Changer d’ère” list. Today, it might be about punishing the Left Front, which, by uniting with “Changer d’ère,” allowed Emmanuelle Gaziello to become a metropolitan councilor at the expense of his list’s candidate, Anne Laure Ruby. Or perhaps to guard against a contagion of other elected officials following Marouane Bouloudhine’s, an ex-UMP who was elected on his list, entry into the opposition, who might attempt to form an autonomous group within Christian Estrosi’s majority.
Whatever the justification, it is pitiable”.
