After recalling the legal troubles of his Rivale LR, the socialist mayor of Paris has tense her environmental allies, who criticized him for promoting “an anti-numes figure”.
By Laurent Telo
For its November session, the Paris Council, Thursday, November 17, almost settled, as usual, of an eventful, but resolutely binary opposition, between the Parisian right and left. Whether on a major subject, the draconian increase in the property tax decided by Anne Hidalgo, or lighter, such as the allocation by the City of Paris of a subsidy to an association which intends to build hedge shelters in wood de Vincennes, who boiled the Republicans (LR).
But that was without counting on the office launched by the mayor (Socialist Party, PS) of Paris, who wanted to open the session by a “solemn” declaration. With the key a questioning of its main rival. “For months, and this morning again, in the newspaper Liberation, we have articles which report outdoor activities for which Rachida Dati is indicted for passive corruption and concealment of abuse of power. Presumption of innocence, Of course, but it is worrying. I say so solemnly: we have the right to know. We must be informed by Rachida Dati of these activities. “Reference to A liberation article> A liberation article , published on November 16, evoking supposed links between the mayor LR of 7 e arrondissement and PSG with a “private intelligence cell”. And to the fact that Ms. Dati has been indicted since July 2021 in the investigation into her consulting services with the former CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Carlos Ghosn.
The interested party was not present in the hemicycle at this moment. But Francis Szpiner, mayor LR of 16 e arrondissement, reacted. “The press is not justice. And to tell her opposite, it’s better. Anne Hidalgo knew that Rachida Dati was in her office. Basically and in form, I can’t find it very suitable” , he deplored, accusing M me
é> hidalgo of carrying out a diversion maneuver in relation to the appointment of his new assistant “.
” 32 assistants, It’s too “
A few moments later, two appointments were actually put in the vote. If that of Jacques Martial, a new assistant to the across the meters, presented no difficulty, that of Lamia El Aaraje, as disability assistant, sowed the trouble within the plural majority. For some municipal members of the PS, the promotion of M me el aaraje, former socialist deputy of the XX e arrondissement whose ballot had been invalidated, is not considered as a Large sign of cohesion. During the last legislative elections, she presented herself against Danielle Simonnet (La France Insoumise), invested by the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts). The new assistant also intends, with Anne Hidalgo, to deposit, during the next PS congress, a list against Olivier Faure, current first secretary. Lamia El Aaraje was also questioned, the day before his appointment, in an article in the Parisian , by a former collaborator in the National Assembly who accuses her of moral harassment. But M Me hidalgo did not think of withdrawing the candidacy of his protégé.
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