“Ladies and gentlemen, she came by bus!
In Clichy-sous-Bois!
»Applause fed in the oriental restaurant Zam-Zam.
"She", who has just entered the room, is Audrey Pulvar, new assistant to Anne Hidalgo in Paris, approached to be the head of the list of a rally on the left in the regional elections in Ile-de-France.
The guests - associations, local elected officials, religious leaders and residents - know how their city is underserved.
So they welcome the initiative of the former journalist.
After a jump in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne) in the morning, Audrey Pulvar made her first trip to the emblematic city of Seine-Saint-Denis.
“I wanted to come here for my first campaign trip.
Fifteen years after the 2005 uprisings, which I covered as a journalist, what has changed?
The difficulties are emblematic of those of many cities in the Ile-de-France region, ”she explains.
If she has not been officially invested as the head of the list of the gathered left, the elected representative of Paris does not want to wait to hear the problems of voters from working-class neighborhoods.
"The Grand Paris metro will not be enough"
The first of these: transport.
"The Grand Paris metro will not be enough, on its own, to overcome the isolation of a city like Clichy and other territories forgotten by the State for years", she slips in passing in front of the construction site of line 16, which should emerge from the ground by 2025 in the city.
"Public transport, parking lot at the entrance to the capital, stations redesigned into attractive spaces, cycle paths: we must encourage alternatives to the car in the inner suburbs" she explains, ensuring "do not want to sanction suburban motorists who do not all have a choice ”.
Free public transport in #IDF is a political step.
We fix it.
It must be accompanied by a marked improvement in services, the network and the condition of the trains.
At the service of Ile-de-France and Ile-de-France residents of the inner suburbs.
#IleDeFranceEnCommun https://t.co/Ez2zPHvnSL pic.twitter.com/DvCokOG0kc
- Audrey PULVAR (@AudreyPulvar) October 11, 2020
On her recent promise to make the Navigo pass free for all the inhabitants of Ile-de-France, which had sparked a controversy, some accusing her of promising without being able to pay, she replied: "We will finance this measure by attacking the hidden costs of the car: that of road accidents, or pollution, which costs 4 billion euros in Ile-de-France.
There is a lack of ambition on this subject!
She adds: "Today, is transport working well?
No.
"
And, anyway, "the bicycle, the bus, are not the prerogative of Paris, but a trend deployed by the mayors of the inner suburbs", she recalls, sweeping aside the reproaches of certain elected officials of the inner suburbs on Anne Hidalgo's all-pedestrian and all-cycling policy, of which she is the deputy in Paris, responsible, according to them, for traffic jams of which suburbanites have the victims.
Renovate the “thermal strainers” of social housing
Another area of competence of the region that it intends to share in the neighborhoods: social housing, including "the too many thermal strainers must be renovated because they undermine the purchasing power of families".
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And to tackle, also, the levies of the State in the employers' 1% to tie up its budgets for city policy.
"This money must be reinvested in social and intermediate housing, not be used to complete the state budget", she believes while crossing the district of Chêne-Pointu, degraded co-ownership of Clichy-sous-Bois, in company , in particular, of Faiçale Bouricha, elected in Clichy.
Mariame, associative of Clichy-sous-Bois, welcomes for its part that a "black woman" can accede to the presidency of the region, "for a question of representativeness of Ile-de-France".
“I never wanted to make an argument,” Pulvar replies.
“But if this can be used to show the vitality that diversity allows, so much the better!
"
The choice of the head of the list known in December
The choice of the head of the list of the left should be effective in December.
Audrey Pulvar sets three conditions for her candidacy: "The rally, assume a left-wing position, and make the Republic a compass".
And, while the Zam-Zam TV screen broadcasts the recent poll placing it in second position behind Valérie Pécresse, president (Free!) Of the region, in the first round (17% against 32%) and in the second (33% against 37%, on condition of uniting with EELV), she does not blush.
“For a candidate who has not yet launched her campaign, facing the current president, we can be happy!
"
