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The PS mayor of Marseille calls on Macron for help

2021-03-10T19:37:36.002Z


Debt, substandard housing, dilapidated schools… Benoît Payan turns to the Head of State to bail out the Marseille city.


The appointment, postponed due to a health crisis, was to take place last month.

It was finally this Wednesday that Emmanuel Macron received Benoît Payan, the PS mayor of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), for lunch.

It was about the health situation, but also the major issues of the city (security, housing, transport, schools) and its financial difficulties.

Payan came out, he said on BFMTV, with the assurance of receiving state aid.

According to our information, the president could indeed take initiatives for Marseille by the summer.

Until then, working meetings will take place between the city and the state, according to the councilor, who calls for "national solidarity".

"A magnifying mirror of the issues that arise in the country"

For Emmanuel Macron, Marseille is not only the second city in France.

He also has, underlines an intimate, “a personal attachment” to the Phocaean city, of which he follows the files closely.

“He sees it as a magnifying mirror of the issues that arise in the country,” adds a Walker.

When a second says: “And he feels that there are a lot of issues that are not being dealt with as they should be.

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"I told him there was no love, only proof of love," retorts Payan on BFMTV.

And to insist: "The boxes are empty.

The city is in a state of debt like no other!

"Struggling, too, with two major difficulties: the dilapidation of schools for which" we must put 1 billion euros ", according to the mayor, and housing" unworthy or insanitary "which concerns one in ten Marseillais.

Payan looking for a "partner"

Local walkers also note that Payan is isolated, metropolis, department and region being held by the right.

In short, he would be looking for "a partner".

“There shouldn't be a blank check.

This requires the city to sweep in front of its door and reorganize itself, which has not happened, ”warns Saïd Ahamada, LREM deputy for Bouches-du-Rhône.

A meeting with a very political flavor, therefore.

Especially since it sounds, after a meeting at the Elysee Palace a month ago between the president and the PS mayor of Montpellier, Michaël Delafosse, as a signal sent to the left, 14 months before the presidential election.

"We are trying to work for the link with the elected representatives of the left of the big cities", confides a government adviser, also thinking of the recent visit of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, in Nantes, city PS of Johanna Rolland.

"Like that," laughs another, "we soap Hidalgo's board well!

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Source: leparis

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