a mayor issues an order to charge parking for Paris councilors in his municipality

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2024-02-08 15:18:38

By Théo Dausce

Published 4 hours ago, Updated 21 minutes ago


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In response to the consultation targeting SUVs organized by Paris town hall, Saint-Aignan le Jaillard wants to dissuade Parisian councilors from going to his commune.

Last Sunday, 54.55% of Parisians voted in favor of “creation of a specific rate for the parking of heavy, bulky, polluting individual cars”. Exasperated by this measure initiated by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Saint-Aignan le Jaillard ironically attacked the socialist mayor on Facebook by revealing a decree entitled “Regulation of paid parking for vehicles of Paris municipal councilors”. The seven articles that compose it are based on the “Code of Public Absurdity of Territorial Authorities” writes Ugo Planchet. The mayor explains his approach. “I made the decision to issue this humorous decree, because it is difficult to implement, to respond to the measure of Anne Hidalgo » before adding “It’s a response to absurdity with absurdity”. The 31-year-old councilor wants to directly “make parking for the vehicles of Paris municipal councilors pay” who would go to his commune.

Using irony, the mayor, without political label but with “a right-wing sensibility”, announces for example that one hour of parking will now be priced at 18 euros for Parisian advisors. For six hours or more, Parisian elected officials will even have to pay the tidy sum of 225 euros! To this is added a “special rate” if they decide to park their bike weighing more than ten kilos in the commune of Loiret, a triple price “February 29 of each leap year”.

“Article 4: Sanctions. Any violator of these regulations must present a public apology to all citizens of Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard and offer a general tour to the nearest bar.

Ugo Planchet

The elected official, however, assures that his order has very little chance of being accepted by the prefecture. “She will take it into account. But he will definitely be rejected. I simply wanted to do it because if mine is not enforceable by law, why would theirs be?”

Parisians’ “contempt for rurality”

At 31, the young mayor of Saint-Aignan le Jaillard wants to seize this spotlight to denounce “the contempt of Parisians for rurality”. The Parisian consultation, which cost 400,000 euros, is completely «hors-sol» according to him who denounces the obsession of an elite wishing to impose “a punitive, non-incentivizing ecology”. However, the councilor declares “not to be anti-ecological” having taken a whole host of concrete measures in its commune of 619 inhabitants. “We have undertaken a major work to find water leaks allowing us to save 46,000 cubic meters of water, or half of our annual consumption. We are in the process of changing all the windows of our town hall and our public school.”.

Ugo Planchet would have liked to participate in the consultation which he denounces as “proof of Parisian solidarity on a subject that concerns everyone”. A position that provokes a reaction among the socialists, the mayor declares having received messages “not always pleasant” from them. Will Anne Hidalgo respond to him in person? The subject of SUVs in any case concerns the whole of France and is not limited to the capital. According to him “it’s a fair response to the neglect of the countryside, we feel excluded even though we are directly concerned by ecology”. The news proves him right “the crisis in the agricultural world is the very illustration that a gap is widening between cities and the countryside” he concludes.


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