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In Bordeaux, the start of a mandate grappling with health and safety for Pierre Hurmic

2020-08-04T18:13:36.586Z


The new mayor, aware of being expected on the ecological side, must deal with the increase in Covid-19 cases and a rise in crime.


Electric bicycles from the metropolis have been installed in the entrance to the town hall, available to elected officials or agents, for their meetings. Under the grand staircase of the Palais Rohan, here is the symbol of a change of era in Bordeaux, if one needed one. The new mayor of the city, Pierre Hurmic, praises the “proximity”, like all the mayors before him. He gets around on foot or by bike, stops to chat. A way of getting " in the costume of mayor" . It can be learned. I still have some way to go. It takes time and humility, ”he accepts.

At the head of the city of Bordeaux, he had a first month in his image: discreet but hardworking. A beginning of mandate during which two " unexpected" and sensitive subjects were invited : health, with the "worrying" increase in Covid-19 cases in Bordeaux, until then relatively spared, and security, with a rise in delinquency and a series of disturbing knife attacks. Not really subjects that the

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Source: lefigaro

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