What is this for?
A left-wing elected official from Marmandais remained incredulous upon reading “Sud Ouest”, Friday October 25, upon discovering the initiative of the Mas-d'Agenais town hall, which will host a medical office of the Médecins solidaires association. A way to put an end to the shortage of practitioners, which the town has been suffering for three years. “There are a certain number of us who are wondering,” whispers this mayor. The ARS and the Departmental Council asked us to coordinate to offer solutions for welcoming doctors. We have been working on it and nothing is happening. At the Mas, they obviously followed a more efficient methodology. » And this councilor, although of the color of the majority of Saint-Jacques, concludes: “One wonders if the Departmental Council serves any purpose…”
Charlie Delta
Fearless Halloween
Halloween is scary. This is the observation made by Thomas Bouyssonnie, municipal councilor in the opposition in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, after having experienced the demonstration organized at the Château de Rogé, on October 26 and 27. On this occasion, he decided to go with his family and in particular with his 7-year-old nephew, who was too scared to finish the route… An adventure that he shared on social networks. And to suggest limiting entry to those over 12 years old, which is already the case for the nighttime version of the event. At the same time, he offered fearless activities for children between disguises and distribution of candy… But is a Halloween that is not scary still a Halloween? You have three hours…
The right is him
Geoffroy Gary left Éric Zemmour's Reconquête to follow, as we remember, Marion Maréchal in her new Identity-Libertés movement, but also the Lot-et-Garonne National Rally and the UDR 47 (Éric Ciotti's movement ), of which he has the cards. A combo worth a certificate, obviously. During a discussion, on social networks, with the Villeneuvois PS opponent Frédéric Ladrech, we learned that Geoffroy Gary currently considers the majority of Guillaume Lepers, his former friend who became his best enemy, as a dangerous socialist outfit. At the remark of Frédéric Ladrech, who reminded him that the town hall had shifted to the right in 2020, the former rugby player immediately took up the fray: “A false right allied with the left, subject to wokist and progressive ideologies. The Right, the real right, the right of conviction, it’s me.” It’s (almost) Mélenchon.
Exempt
The City of Agen has a good chance of being exempt from the 2% levy on these operating revenues, to allow the State to constitute a reserve fund from which it should happily draw. The criterion of the amount of the DSU (Urban Security Grant) would indeed fall within the exemption criteria, according to the first version of Michel Barnier's plan. The services of the City of Agen are therefore working to find out if, according to its 2023 results, it can escape this bitter potion amounting to 1.3 million euros. Could the Department, also called upon to cough up this reserve fund (nearly 8 million), escape this? A list is reportedly being created, with the level of indigence as a criterion. Could this be why Pierre Chollet encouraged President Sophie Borderie to pack her bags, in order to plead the cause of Lot-et-Garonne? She assured the opposition leader that, even if she did not publish her agenda, she visited the capital very often. We are reassured.
Poorly paid
On the other hand, the Agglo d'Agen will not be able to escape the 2% drain on the reserve fund. In question, the State does not take into account the pooling of services of the town hall of Agen and the Agglo; he therefore does not make a distinction. It's nerd.
Calamity Joe
The socialist mayor of Marmande will not be able to count on his opposition to defend him in the legal standoff which opposes him to the National Rally, which accuses him of discrimination based on political opinions, since he refused to hold the Jordan Bardella meeting in his city. When Marmande Avenir (center-right) takes up Voltaire's famous quote “I don't agree with what you say, but I will fight to the end so that you can say it”, Forces Marmandaises ( right) deplores the fact that it will be the Marmandais who will pay for the procedure and “the very possible condemnation of the calamitous position taken by Joël Hocquelet”. A question that does not arise for the mayor, since he “does not think he is illegal”. But that's the judge who will say.
Not funny
During his speech last week, at a Departmental Council meeting, Christian Delbrel, the elected representative of Pont-du-Casse, took a shot at Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, the president of the Chamber of Agriculture, whose the attitude, during the last session of the Chamber, greatly displeased the elected Cassipontine. “It shows disrespect and aggression towards elected officials, which is unacceptable. He doesn't make anyone laugh anymore. Hats off to those who slammed the door that day. » Allusion to the vice-president in charge of agricultural issues, Joël Hocquelet, who left the session, tired of the attacks of which he had been the target.
Larks
Senator Christine Bonfanti-Dossat is gaining altitude. Leaving the red velvet of the Senate seats, she puts on the khaki hunting outfits and climbs into the pigeon hut to defend traditional hunting: “Because after the lark, it is the traditional hunting of the woodpigeon which risks being attacked, we must defend ancient traditions which are part of our cultural, traditional and gastronomic heritage. It is not acceptable to constantly see hunting attacked by out-of-ground ideologies and deadly measures. Rurality without hunters is rurality without identity,” she said in a press release.
Neighborhood meeting or cinema?
In Agen, the municipality threads neighborhood meetings like a string of pearls, often late in the evening, when stomachs start to rumble. We admit that we must give those who work time to join these “participatory democracy” masses, but should we really inflict each time on the public, already drowsy, this tedious twenty-minute clip on the general politics of the neighborhoods? carried out by the City, where there is obviously very little question of the star district of the evening? We spare a thought for those who throw the municipal bulletin out the door, and see it return through the window of a projector. One wonders if these meetings are not also a place of propaganda for a municipal majority, very proud of its actions.
