2023-11-24 12:20:10
The Secretary of State for the City and Citizenship, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, attends a question session to the government, at the National Assembly, in Paris, November 21, 2023. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP
“We must go faster, further, stronger. » Less than two months after her appointment as Secretary of State for Citizenship, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, also in charge of the city portfolio, announced, Friday, November 24, the entry into a new phase of the “Marseille en grand” plan. , of which the President of the Republic entrusted him with the management.
Launched on September 2, 2021 by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, this support plan aims to make up for delays in France’s second city in multiple areas: security, education, transport, urban renovation, but also health and culture. In total, the funding announced by the State reaches 5 billion euros, in direct subsidies or loan assistance. “Never has a president decided, outside of exceptional circumstances, to invest so much money in a city », recalls Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, originally from Marseille.
But, two years and two months after the Pharo speech, during which Emmanuel Macron declined his intentions but also asked local elected officials to stop their « chicayas »the State shows the beginnings of dissatisfaction. “90% of the announced projects have been committed (…)but that does not mean projects are completed or are progressing at a good pace”, berates the new Secretary of State. A speech of impatience that she comes to make directly to local elected officials, Friday, during a day spent in the field.
“Move the city forward”
After a meeting in the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture where she invited all the representatives of the local authorities, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache traveled to the construction site of a primary school and then inspected the work on the extension of the Marseille tramway. Choice of symbolic visits, linked to two of the main themes of the “Marseille en grand” plan. Programs managed respectively by the town hall and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis. Two communities whose political skirmishes, which have become almost daily, weigh on numerous issues.
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“I’m not here to explain who is doing it right or wrong. My goal is to move the city forward. When, in schools, the State invests 400 million euros in financing and 650 million [d’euros] in a guaranteed loan, he logically expects results. Same thing in transport »affirmed Sabrina Agresti-Roubache at Monde, a few days before his trip.
The Secretary of State, whose name is now regularly circulating as that of a potential candidate for the 2026 municipal elections, refuses to make the plan a personal political issue. “The results of “Marseille en grand” will be collective. Either everyone wins or everyone loses.”she assures.
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