Three deputy mayors of Grenoble, Eric Piolle (EELV), were deprived of their delegation to the city council, this Monday, May 15, after having publicly expressed their reservations during a vote on the increase in the property tax, last March .
Three deputies to the ecologist mayor Eric Piolle were deprived of their delegations to the city council, this Monday, May 15, two months after having publicly expressed their reservations following the vote on a property tax increase.
In total, seven elected officials leave the majority of Mr. Piolle and will create a new group called Grenoble Démocratie Ecologie Solidarité (GDES). Anouche Agobian, Maxence Alloto and Hakim Sabri were all deprived of their delegations during a secret vote in a tense municipal council on Monday evening. They were immediately replaced by two new deputies and a delegated municipal councilor.
This rupture comes after the vote, on March 13, of the city’s 2023 budget which provides for a contested increase of +25% in the property tax rate in order to raise 44 million euros to finance a “social and climate justice shield”.
The seven elected officials had expressed their “unease” about this increase but had voted in fine le budget 2023 “in accordance with the founding principles of belonging to a majority group”.
One of the three sanctioned deputies, Maxence Alloto, expressed his “disappointment” before the vote formalizing their exclusion. Eric Piolle “can’t stand contradiction, that’s what saddens us above all because the left isn’t that”he estimated.
“The 25% increase was not part of our commitments and therefore we wanted to focus the debate on this issue”underlined for his part the municipal councilor Pascal Clouaire, who is also part of the seven.
The resulting exclusion of the three deputies is, in his view, “a disproportionate measure, of incredible symbolic violence” and in “total contradiction between the measure and the discourse that is carried”. The elected officials concerned have announced a series of appeals for “excess of power”.
Without expanding on the conflict, Eric Piolle admitted on Monday a “disagreement” between the seven elected officials and the municipal majority.
In a press release sent in the evening, during the municipal council, the mayor of Grenoble sent his thanks to the ousted deputies, but nevertheless underlined his disagreement with them: “Providing ourselves with the necessary means to amplify the announced transitions (…), given the social and climate emergency, or maintaining the same pace, such is the disagreement that separates GEC from the seven colleagues who joined the GDES group.”
“I extend a big thank you to Anouche Agobian, Maxence Alloto, Hakim Sabri, Barbara Schuman and Amel Zenati for the work accomplished within our team. (…) It is time for work for the members of the executive , close to the people of Grenoble and Grenoble”he concluded.
With AFP
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