THE QUESTION -
During an interview on RTL on Wednesday March 10, the socialist mayor of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) Benoît Payan assured that his city was "
perhaps the largest city in France the least well endowed"
, otherwise says the one with which "
the State is the least generous
".
Traveling to Paris to meet Emmanuel Macron and discuss the “
catastrophic
”
financial situation
of Marseille, a city “
not managed for 25 years
” and indebted to the tune of 1.5 billion euros, Benoît Payan appealed to the State grants and partnerships, including to pay the billion dollar bill that would bring the city's schools up to standard.
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Let us first note the semantics used by the city council of Marseille.
Twice, Benoît Payan used during this same interview the adverb "maybe": "
Marseille is perhaps the least well-endowed large city in France
" followed by "
when you look at the number of agents.
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