The return of Etienne Marcel? On Monday the Council of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, mayor of the capital, will present to vote three wishes to change the status of the City of Paris and, in particular, to end the guardianship exercised even the state of the city . “I do not want a special status. I want to be an ordinary mayor “, she summed it a few months ago. In 1358, Etienne Marcel formulated the same request to the king, though more warlike version and Charles V responded by doing murder. Times change.
Today, what is it? Essentially ask the government and Parliament to give more autonomy to Paris. In France, the authorities do not decide their status and Paris even less than others. The vows presented this Monday to vote elected should be the basis for the government to write a bill. Although Anne Hidalgo went plead his case at the Elysée and Matignon, no one knows when and how parliamentarians, mostly provincial, will address the status of the capital. Review of future work.
Marier boroughs
The mayor of the I st borough is fifteen times less inhabitants as the XV th . To rectify this geography, the Constitutional Council has already pointed, the Parisian executive proposes a merger of the four central districts, with one mayor, one board but the preservation of postal codes. The city would keep twenty districts but would only seventeen mayors.
This is the most discussed item. The opposition sees this Parisian electoral ulterior motives. Eric Azière, president of UDI-Modem group, announced that his friends will vote the wishes but they wanted separate redistribution of the rest. “Anne Hidalgo wants to go to large areas, he says, but it does not frighten the Parisians.” There are big doubts about the willingness of parliamentarians to simply implement the plan of the mayor. “As soon as the legislator will interfere, it will ask if it is not constitutional overhaul that four small boroughs.”
Environmentalists them, would have liked to go further. “Our logic was based on sets of 100 000. But it cut the XV th in two, which does not create political consensus “ says euphemistically David Belliard, their co-chair. As for Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, President of the LR group, she flatly rejects this it sees redistricting “designed to serve the political interests of Anne Hidalgo” . She refused to participate in the working group set up by the executive.
Resume joysticks
The central government has always had an eye on Paris . In France, mayors are elected since 1882. A Paris since 1977. And Police side, even Giscard which made a mayor in the city has not debunked the police commissioner. The character created by Napoleon in 1800, has always been helpful for control of the capital. Two hundred years later, the police commissioner has beautiful remains: it allows, or not, all events on public roads since the giant rallies Nation on Republic to the “Flea seamstresses” street of Vinaigriers .
seriously, it is he who gives, or not, the green light to alternating traffic in case of pollution peak. And its approval is required to change the main axes (pedestrianize the river banks for example). The mayor would “refocus police on its security missions” and get rid of “the daily police” . But in Paris, the state power over the daily management often shows and not always with great delicacy. Anne Hidalgo very badly eg Emmanuel Macron decide to open shops on Sundays in Paris. “The texts are organizing this confrontation because they are the product of history” , she sighs.
Swallowing the department 75
Since the cutting of the Ile-de-France region in 1964, the perimeter of the city is also that of his department. The Paris council to vote enquiquine two budgets, duplicating a series of deliberations and for years, a bell tinkled as she was sitting in municipal or county. The bell is a party to the cellar, easy reform.
On the merger of the two institutions, “we went as far as possible” says Anne Hidalgo. But, she adds, “the regional audit told us that we must go further” . Peninou Mao, deputy cleanliness, says Paris will be “a common expanded the powers to those of the department” . With this city department merger which no one disputes, will set a precedent for a possible merger of the departments of the first ring in the metropolis, far more controversy.
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