Le Figaro Nantes
The cannon rather than the cake.
A few days before the tenth anniversary of her election as mayor of Nantes, socialist Johanna Rolland carried out a review interview with the local press.
After a few personal remarks, the councilor returned to our colleagues from
Ouest France
on the greatest achievements of his first mandate - and the start of the second.
Accomplishments that she summarizes in a trinity of axioms.
Thus, according to her, the city of Nantes would have become
“more ecological, more feminist, more creative”
.
The new slogan of municipal communication, the
“ecological bifurcation”
is already embodied by the metamorphosis of transport in the city and the flowering of parks and
“oasis of biodiversity”
.
As for feminism, it would be displayed in particular by the creation of the Citad'elles reception structure, intended for victims of family violence and by the multiplication of female street names.
The mayor of Nantes understands it, however: there have been
“painful and imperfect episodes”
.
She mentions the slums that surround the city, the failed rehabilitation of Place du Commerce - a haven of insecurity in the heart of Nantes - or even the difficult access to housing.
By way of
mea culpa
, Johanna Rolland even admits to having
“for a long time thought that security was the business of the State”
.
And then, in the middle of all this, the councilor finds a space to make the powder thunder.
“The reactors and all those who have not understood that the world is changing, we will do without,”
she sends.
To the left
“Frankly, it’s not very nice for those close to the historic channel of the Socialist Party!”
, reacts for
Le Figaro
the elected opposition representative Julien Bainvel (LR), who considers the Nantes right less targeted by Johanna Rolland's slingshot outing than the old guard of the majority.
“It’s a way of reaching out to the radical left and reassuring its allies by showing them that the heavyweights of the old Nantes socialist school, like its deputy Pascal Bolo, are in an ejection seat,” he
analyzes. he, evoking the recent skirmish between the left-wing elected official and the municipal environmental group, following an interview given to a regional daily.
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For Horizons elected official Guillaume Richard, these artillery duels through the press testify neither more nor less to tension, to unease within the majority.
“It smells like the end of the reign
,” confides the municipal councilor.
Johanna Rolland drew for ten years from the reserves created during the time of
Jean-Marc Ayrault
(
mayor of Nantes from 1989 to 2012, Editor's note).
And now that she sees the bottom of it, she realizes that she has no political vision for the future.
In her counter-assessment of the action of the mayor of Nantes, the senator and municipal elected official (LR) Laurence Garnier finally castigates ten years during which
“Johanna Rolland and her team achieved the feat of going from the most radiant city of the west to that of decline",
by castigating more particularly the variable geometry of its satisfactions.
“The most “feminist” city of Johanna Rolland is the city in which an Islamic veil is displayed by internal mistake to promote women's rights or a city in which on the very day of her feminist prose a woman suffers rape on the island of Nantes,”
she notes in a press release.
Johanna Rolland's red bullet at least comes at the right time, while the radical left movement, Nantes en Commun, close to La France insoumise, is tearing itself apart from within.
And his reservoir of votes – almost 9% in the first round of the 2020 municipal elections – with him.