This morning at 9 AM at the CUM, the Metropolitan Council is meeting in a public session.
The agenda includes two main points:
(i) the approval of the preliminary budget for the 2019 fiscal year, whose guidelines have already been debated in the previous session.
(ii) the deliberations concerning measures developed around 8 axes to achieve the Green Metropolis of the Mediterranean, which will involve an expenditure of 80 million euros. These measures have also been made public in recent days, a fact that was not well-received by Dominique Boy-Mottard (DvG), who criticizes the form:
“Mr. President of the Metropolis is a repeat offender: once again, he flouts representative democracy by publishing in the press a set of decisions—here it concerns the environmental policy of the Metropolis—considered as settled when the debate is supposed to take place 48 hours later.
This way of proceeding, which over the years has become a habit, reflects not only a contempt for the institution and elected officials in general but also the negation of any political autonomy of his own majority.”
As for the substance, the oppositions (both official and unofficial from the “ciottist” allegiance councilors) will certainly revisit the community’s debt, deemed excessive, and very likely on the communication-oriented nature of the ecological plan.
It can be assumed that the very likely interventions from Ms. D’Intorni and Mr. Decoupigny will add some spice to the benefit of public interest.
