Are territories in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region deprived of regional funds? Elected Republicans of the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var think so. They launched, this Monday, October 10 during a press conference at the town hall of Cannes, a rather muscular appeal to the two leaders of Paca, ex-LR, president Renaud Muselier and the president-delegate Christian Estrosi, so that an “audit of subsidies, as well as “the creation of an equity observatory”, with independent personalities, be set up “immediately”. Objective according to them: to ensure that regional financial aid is allocated without any political ulterior motive, “nor clientelism” they explain.
Contract for the Future, actions to fight against floods, Canneséries festival, sports clubs and associations would be particularly concerned. “Even if we are communists, anarchists or RN, public money should not depend on partisan considerations. There, we show you the reality with figures from verifiable administrative accounts, ”says David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and president of the association of mayors of France, surrounded by Éric Ciotti, deputy, Charles-Ange Ginésy, president of the department of the Alpes-Maritimes, Sébastien Leroy, mayor of Mandelieu and Varois, Frédéric Masquelier, mayor of Saint-Raphaël.
Nothing is going well between old friends
For them this “disengagement” would be linked to the political disagreements which erupted with Renaud Muselier (and his ally Christian Estrosi) when he made an agreement, in the last regional elections, with Emmanuel Macron’s LREM. Since then, sensational declarations have been made between the two camps. The latest on Monday is signed Éric Ciotti: “We are in a banana region,” he said bluntly.
So many accusations refuted by the region which reacted in a press release. “Faced with such a display of bad faith and untruths, which ultimately stems from the specific situation of three municipalities out of 946 in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, Renaud Muselier (…) will bring a certain number of answers (…) on the occasion of the Salon of mayors and intermunicipalities of the Alpes-Maritimes, this Thursday, October 13th. “Nothing really goes between the old friends of the Provençal right.