2023-10-05 12:00:24
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, speaks with Yannick Jadot, now an environmentalist senator from Paris, on the day of the senatorial elections, at Paris City Hall, September 24, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
With the mobilization decreed to eradicate bedbugs and the controversy over the relocation of second-hand booksellers during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (JO), the reshuffle of the Parisian executive is the big affair of the Paris Council which ends on Friday 6 october. After the senatorial elections, on September 24, which saw three members – Ian Brossat (French Communist Party, PCF) was deputy for housing, Colombe Brossel (Socialist Party, PS) for cleanliness, Anne Souyris (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, EELV) to health – from her municipal majority joining the Palais du Luxembourg, Anne Hidalgo is forced to reshuffle her executive.
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But the related negotiations, during which each component of the majority tries to do well by recovering as many deputy positions as possible, are a thousand miles from the unity displayed by the socialists, ecologists and communists during the senatorial elections. . A common list which made it possible to elect eight left-wing senators.
The socialist mayor of Paris imagined distributing, smoothly, a position to each component of her majority. Ms. Hidalgo had also warned: the reshuffle will be minimal. She doesn’t want to upset anything less than a year before the Olympics ceremony. But this is not exactly the idea that environmentalists have, who want to take advantage of the opportunity to breathe new political life into the second part of the mandate.
“Greens hot shot”
“For us, a reshuffle is not simply a negotiation of positions, it is deeper than that, explains Fatoumata Koné, president of the environmental group at the Council of Paris. Given the surge in climate change and the social emergency – our priorities – we must send a strong political message. Why not modify certain scopes, strengthen delegations for these subjects, and increase the human and financial resources allocated to accelerate the expected transformations? »
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The communists and socialists see it rather as a pretext used by environmentalists to apply for numerous delegations, put pressure on the allies of the majority and gain political power within the executive. The Greens regret, for their part, that the elected representatives of the PS and the PCF have somewhat blocked the negotiations upstream, confining them to a supplementary role. They therefore declared themselves interested in taking over, for example, the culture or the gender equality and youth delegation.
“This way of overplaying the balance of power is not politically justifiedassures Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy of Anne Hidalgo. We don’t understand the Greens’ reaction. It’s even disrespectful to the 2020 elections [David Belliard, le candidat EELV, avait réalisé 10,79 % au premier tour]. It’s normal to ask for the moon, but you also have to know how to stop a negotiation. In fact, we are happy to work with the Greens and I hope that is reciprocal. »
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