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Green mayors struggle to blend in with the landscape

2021-01-04T19:34:42.417Z


INVESTIGATION - Virulent controversies, consequences of Covid, national increase in insecurity…. Six months after their arrival at the head of large cities, environmental mayors have sometimes had to postpone some of their programmatic ambitions. A confrontation with reality that ...


Education assistant to the environmentalist mayor of Strasbourg, Jeanne Barseghian, Hulliya Turan lost her temper during the last municipal council of the year, on December 14, causing a painful abscess to burst.

The debate started with the words to be used to impose respect for secularism in the internal regulations of the City.

The word “

secularism

” does not appear there although it is present in an almost identical charter adopted by the Strasbourg Eurometropolis.

The elected EELV Caroline Zorn maintains that "

the principle of secularism should not open the door to discrimination

", that we should not have a "

closed

"

conception

.

Obviously, the discussion quickly escalates.

Nicolas Matt (LREM) points to a "

fearful

Of secularism.

The allies of the environmentalist mayor respond, denounce a

"zemmourization of spirits".

In the opposition today, the former socialist mayor, Catherine Trautmann, who marched in the 1980s against the FN, holds her breath.

On the sidelines, the ex-candidate

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Source: lefigaro

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