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"Small Seine-Saint-Denis everywhere in Île-de-France": the little phrase of Valérie Pécresse moves the left

2020-11-29T03:43:19.339Z


While talking about redistribution of wealth between communities in the Senate, Valérie Pécresse called for "vigilance" to prevent


“We have small Seine-Saint-Denis all over the Île-de-France.

We have to be vigilant […] ”The short sentence is signed by Valérie Pécresse, president (Libres!) Of the Ile-de-France regional council.

Pronounced Thursday, it sets fire to the powder ... at least among its opponents.

His remarks were made in front of the senatorial delegation to local authorities, during a hearing concerning the competences of the metropolis of Greater Paris, and filmed by the Public Senate channel.

A "stigmatization" in due form of 93 for many elected PS - and not only of Seine-Saint-Denis, who believe that Valérie Pécresse associates poverty, Seine-Saint-Denis and terrorist risk, assuming her fear that this cocktail does not swarm elsewhere in Île-de-France.

They see there "the contempt" of the elected right for the popular districts, perceived, according to them, like "a disease which should not spread", and of which Seine-Saint-Denis would be "the incarnation".

"She talks about 93 as a virus"

Distributed en masse on social networks, the point is actually a little more complex.

Regarding equalization, a device for redistributing wealth, the president of the region says: “Seine-Saint-Denis is a very unique department, with a lot of poverty.

What worries me is the increase in these pockets of poverty and their spread throughout Île-de-France.

You go to Garges-les-Gonesse, Sarcelles, Villiers-le-Bel… This is where the man grew up who came to assassinate our officials from the Prefecture of Police.

I'm sorry: there are small Seine-Saint-Denis all over Île-de-France.

We have to be very vigilant.

This logic of equalization must cover all of Île-de-France […] ”.

Unacceptable to his opponents.

"She talks about the 93 which could spread elsewhere in Île-de-France such ... a virus, a serious disease", strangles Yannick Trigance, regional counselor PS.

"It is a stigma, one more, of the department, especially as it emanates from the president of all Ile-de-France residents," he adds.

Regretting that 93 is "reduced to its poverty" and worse, "at the risk of creating terrorists that this generates".

Catherine Lime, PS regional councilor, elected in Hauts-de-Seine, who swears "not to be a fan of controversies", deplores that Pécresse makes "a direct link between poverty and terrorism".

"I underlined the existence in the outer suburbs of territories equally stricken by poverty"

An interpretation that scandalizes its author.

Contacted, Valérie Pécresse believes that "her remarks have been completely taken out of context by people who are in an election campaign and who seek to distort them", recalling that the regional elections are taking place next June.

Basically, she explains that her intervention before the Senate consisted of saying that we must look at all the poor areas in the region.

“My general point was about the fact that 75% of the wealth of Île-de-France is created on the metropolitan perimeter, and that the inner city feels excluded from the MGP.

I said that a truly inclusive metropolis must integrate the inner suburbs and pleaded for a regional metropolis, ”she explains.

On the incriminated passage, she specifies: "I replied to Phillippe Dallier

(Editor's note: Senator LR from Seine-Saint-Denis)

who said that Seine-Saint-Denis had multiple handicaps and should be the subject of attention. special needs and additional financial resources.

I replied:

There are small Seine-Saint-Denis throughout Ile-de-France

.

I wanted to underline the existence, particularly in the outer suburbs, of areas equally stricken by poverty and by the lack of financial resources and public service.

I think it's obvious!

"

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“You have to be clear-headed: the 93 is going badly!

"

And Valérie Pécresse to recall, also, that the seat of the regional council was installed, on her initiative, in Saint-Ouen, in 2018. Tackling the former left majority: "Which is not the case of those who criticize me and who exploit this territory, which I love and which I constantly defend ”.

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The right of 93, it supports the elected.

“This is an idle interpretation of his words.

You have to be clear-headed: the 93 is going badly!

Should we systematically take it as an example of territories that are going badly?

Myself, that does not amuse me.

But I am forced to do it, ”summarizes Jean-Christophe Lagarde, deputy and president of the UDI.

Same story with Geoffrey Carvalhinho, elected (LR) in Pantin and… collaborator of Pécresse: “Those who say that the presidency of the region stigmatizes the 93 are pathetic!

It is the department most helped by the community, the one where it has set up the regional headquarters.

Valérie Pécresse comes to the neighborhoods, she finds solutions for them.

Pécresse… it's Chirac!

"

Another controversial sentence about Essonne

But this is not the only sentence pronounced Thursday before the senatorial delegation that is controversial.

“What is a metropolis if it does not integrate Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, international airport, Saclay, the leading technological center in France, Marne-la-Vallée, Versailles or even Cergy-Pontoise?

Some would say that the metropolis has only to take Roissy or Saclay.

But here you completely kill the territories.

The president of Essonne will tell you: if they take Saclay from me, I only have the poor left.

I have a million inhabitants left who do not live in Saclay (Editor's note: the department has nearly 1.3 million inhabitants, including 300,000 in the Paris-Saclay agglomeration) but who are driven by the dynamic from Saclay.

"

Comments denounced by a tweet from Jérome Guedj, former president (PS) of the departmental council of Essonne and displayed support of Audrey Pulvar, probable candidate of the left for the regional ones.

"If Saclay is taken away from me, I only have the poor, 1 million poor, so this is how François Durovray (Editor's note: President LR of Essonne) speaks to Valérie Pécresse who clearly shares the argument and takes it up again. morning, written on social networks Jérôme Guedj.

Contempt for the inhabitants, arrogance and stupidity.

I am ashamed for them.

"

Valérie Pécresse says for her part "collapsed by the mediocrity of the controversy".

“Jérôme Guedj totally distorts the meaning of my point,” she retorts.

Of course I am not saying that there are a million poor people in Essonne.

I'm talking about the territories.

Imagining the slightest condescension on my part towards Ile-de-France residents is like receiving a slap in the face, after all the work we are carrying out with François Durovray to rebalance the territories in Essonne: the 20 million euros injected into the Genopole in Evry-Courcouronnes , the tram-train, the Cocteau house… This controversy has only one objective: to make me dirty.

"

Source: leparis

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