The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo was not spared this Tuesday, May 31 at the opening of the first Council of Paris since her defeat in the presidential election, where the elected officials of the opposition took the opportunity to reproach her for her absence.
Barely back, already criticized. For the first Council of Paris since its historic disillusionment with the presidential election, the mayor of the capital Anne Hidalgo was the target of the opposition. The elected representatives of the Changer Paris group, chaired by the mayor of the 7th arrondissement Rachida Dati, took advantage of the opening of this Council, this Tuesday, May 31, to “make a point of order”, invoking article 28 relating to questions of news.
the harsh call to order from the right
According to the rules, these oral questions are traditionally “tabled on the second day of the session, before 11 a.m., at the podium, to be examined on the afternoon of the second day when the session resumes”. Or this Wednesday afternoon as part of the Paris Council, which opens on Tuesday.
But Anne Hidalgo will not be there, expected in Madrid to participate in a meeting for the organization of the Paris 2024 Olympics. A planned and announced absence that the Parisian executive had tried to counter, advancing by one day the current affairs. A derogation from the rules refused by the Changer Paris group.
“Paris bores you, the Parisians bore you”, then launched Rachida Dati to Anne Hidalgo, about this scheduled absence. “Your meeting attendance rate over the past 12 months barely exceeds 20%. A presence as anecdotal as your score in the presidential election,” she punched.
Denouncing the fact that Anne Hidalgo would only attend “more than formal tributes and visits” and would only intervene for “a few authoritarian monologues”, the mayor LR of the 7th arrondissement accused the mayor of Paris “of not responding to any question” and “not to receive either Parisians or City officials”.
“we work in the interests of Parisians”
“It had escaped me that you had won an election”, then replied Anne Hidalgo, who then gave the floor to Patrick Bloche, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of the Council of Paris, who in turn recalled the refusal of the group Changer Paris to bring forward the session of current affairs and which regretted “that sectarianism prevails”.
But there is no question for the Parisian councilor “to transform this assembly into a media circus”. “I tell the Parisians who are watching us that I will guarantee that this assembly will not be misled, and that we will work well in the interests of Parisians,” she defended herself.
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And his assistant to underline that in “January, February and March 1995, Jacques Chirac [alors maire de la capitale et candidat à l’élection présidentielle] had opened the three sessions of the Council of Paris and had left in the middle of the first debate”, “not holding any of the sessions on current affairs”. And this, “while the Council of Paris lasted only one day at that time”.
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