Final act of the municipal opposition from the Changer d’Ère Group before the start of the electoral campaign with Patrick Allemand as the head of the list. Accompanied by socialist and green elected officials who spoke one after the other, the leader and candidate expressed full satisfaction with the actions of this mandate.
“Our opposition has been responsible, we voted yes on the deliberations that were in the direction of the general interest and against those that weren’t. We have a largely satisfactory record. First of all, for having stayed united and worked together on all the issues, for which I thank all the elected officials and particularly the ‘ecologists’ who displayed exemplary loyalty.”
Then, having agreed to chair the two finance and tender committees allowed us to show that the interests of the city were not foreign to us, quite the contrary. We highlighted our sense of responsibility and demonstrated our management capabilities.”
And to link this with a few episodes: “The mayor’s backtracking on the ‘promenade’ option for line 2 of the tram route and the so-called renovation of Trachel street… credit goes to us!”. We now await the response of the Mayor of Nice on this subject…
While an opposition, by definition a minority, cannot prevent the majority from governing, facing a particularly communicative Mayor who thrives on adrenaline as fuel, the best tactic could or should have been to apply maximum pressure to the majority. Was this always the case?
But Patrick Allemand is already looking further: “During this mandate, Christian Estrosi has shown a lack of strategic vision, he made full-time communication his favorite tool, and revealed his authoritarian side during last Friday’s municipal council deliberation: he cannot stand being criticized! His excesses are an insult to the citizens of Nice.”
Responsible, tenacious, coherent, motivated opposition: And if this search for an adjective to qualify the noun was just an arrogant weakness?
The page is now turned on the past, and the urgency of the present is focused on the future with an officially opened electoral campaign. Patrick Allemand, declaring himself confident about its outcome, plays his last card: Either he will be mayor, or, after two consecutive defeats, he will have to step down.
