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Burkini: Can Laurent Wauquiez suspend all regional subsidies in Grenoble?

2022-05-19T15:40:05.859Z


THE VERIFICATION - The president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region has announced that he will "immediately" suspend the subsidies granted to the town hall of Grenoble following the authorization, adopted by the elected representatives of Grenoble, of the burkini in public swimming pools.


THE QUESTION.

The subject is hot, and never ceases to fuel controversy.

The Grenoble city council gave the green light, Monday, May 16, to wearing the burkini, this swimsuit covering from head to toe, in municipal swimming pools.

Regularly opposed to the Grenoble environmental mayor Éric Piolle, the LR president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez had warned.

"

Not a penny of the Auvergnats-Rhônalpins will finance your submission to Islamism

," he posted on Twitter earlier this month.

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: "

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"

Éric Piolle (the mayor of Grenoble Editor's note) definitively acts his break with secularism and the values ​​of our Republic

", he reacted on Monday.

The former president of the Les Républicains party indicated that he would "

immediately

" suspend all regional subsidies to the city of Grenoble.

Can Laurent Wauquiez legally stop "

all subsidies

"?

On what grounds can a local authority justify its choice of subsidy?

LET'S CHECK.

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Source: lefigaro

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