It is the response of the shepherd to the shepherdess.
In reaction to the Parisian consultation ratifying the tripling of the parking rate for cars weighing more than 2 tonnes, Ugo Planchet, the mayor of Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard (Loiret), issued a decree this Tuesday making “paying for the parking of vehicles of Paris municipal councilors” in its commune of 619 inhabitants.
If Parisian elected officials ventured into this village located southeast of Orléans, it would cost them from 18 euros for an hour of parking to 225 euros for a 6-hour package.
This decree, signed with a pen
ironic,
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is obviously unrealizable
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justifies this elected official - without label - in his thirties who wanted to "respond to the absurd with the absurd".
“The Parisians have decided to exclude us”
More seriously, this approach offered him the opportunity to understand the reality of small rural communities.
“Here, the first station is a thirty-minute drive away.
So yes, there are a lot of SUVs here,” he admits.
“We have the feeling that Parisians have decided to exclude us by preventing us, for example, from introducing our children to the capital.
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The cost of the vote, “close to the 400,000 euros annual budget” of his municipality, also threw him off his hinges.
“Aren’t there other priorities at a time when farmers are expressing their difficulties?
All communities need to take pragmatic steps for the environment, but not in this way.
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Since the publication of this decree, the elected official has received many messages of support on social networks.