of the former mayor (PS), Gérard Allard and place for a duo, chief of staff – technical advisor, formed by Gilles Olivier and Clément Le Reste, two linchpins of the citizens’ list who succeeded in snatching from the socialists the fourth city of Loire Atlantique.
Less than twelve months later, the pair was shattered. Gilles Ollivier left office in June. “For differences of point of view with the mayor,” explains his successor Clément Le Reste, who until then held the post of technical advisor (a replacement will be recruited). “This is done in all discretion, complete an elected. Hervé Neau justified it a posteriori by speaking of “political disagreements” “. Without anyone wanting to specify what these “disagreements” consist of.
Now unreachable on his professional phone or email, Gilles Ollivier was nevertheless an important member of the Rezé citizen association, formed from 2018 around a dozen elected officials who resigned or “resigned” from the Allard team. He had held the same position of chief of staff of the mayor (various left) of Indre, from 2006 and 2014, and had been involved publicly for a year in Rezé on media files (wild carnival or serial burglaries).
Profound reorganization of services
So Clément Le Reste, 28, is responsible for taking over, “much earlier than expected”, according to the same elected official. This original Rezéen, graduated from the University of Nantes then from SciencesPo (Rennes and Lyon), was responsible for citizen dialogue at the City of Rezé in 2017, while the mayor was Gérard Allard and his supervisory deputy… Hervé Neau . “I was inserted in the PS but my notable commitment is Rezé Citizen”, he adds.
This reshuffle is not the only one experienced by the services of the city of Rezé (900 agents) in recent weeks. The general management was also completely overhauled in May, as told West France. With the arrival of a new Director General of Services (DGS), Christophe Gomet to replace Frédéric Barrière, and three new Deputy Directors General (DGA) to assist him. The visible face of a major reorganization of all services, but “which has nothing to do with the changes in the firm”, distinguishes Clément Le Reste. Decidedly, political tranquility is always fleeting in the third city of the Nantes metropolis.
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