In an interview Sunday Journal published on August 3, Christian Estrosi spoke against the privatization of airports, while the Socialist government announced in July the sale of its stake in the Toulouse-Blagnac airport, in order to replenish the national coffers.
The UMP mayor of Nice studied in this context, a takeover by the municipality from the state (60%) in the airport of Nice Côte d’Azur, in the case of draft state want to sell.
“The state wants to get rid of airports to finance its policies which I do not agree. I do not want to pay the entrance this privatization of state Peugeot! “ says Christian Estrosi.
” I do not want our airport to become a regional hub for low cost airlines. I do not want an arrogant and contemptuous private investor. “
the possibility of a takeover by the state, where applicable, the aedile said” think, with others, to buy out State decides to privatization. Nothing is excluded and should be discussed. “
Nice houses the third international airport in France, with 11.5 million passengers per year. The previous government had to give up such a sale in September 2011, failing agreement with the communities involved.
The state was decentralized in 2004 the airport management in local communities, which hold today ‘ Today 15% of large regional airports (Nice, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux) to the side chambers of commerce and industry (25%). The state retains 60%. Then the 2005 law authorizing the opening of Aéroports de Paris capital provided further processing of the major regional hubs in corporations, to open later the capital to private investors. In this perspective, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux and Nice have, from 2007-2008, abandoned their public institution status.
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