The leader of the opposition in Grau-du-Roi held his summer public meeting. Charly Crespe is delighted with an audience of 200 people gathered in the Carrefour 2000 room.
As a preamble, a few comments are in order on the subject of the European elections. The opposition community and municipal councilor is not so surprised by the RN wave which overwhelmed the commune of around 8,500 souls, winning 51.9% of the votes. Already in 2022, “Marine le Pen achieved a very high score”, notes the one who nevertheless intends to “become the mayor of all, whatever their convictions”. It would indeed be suicidal to alienate those who could represent a good section of one’s electorate…
On the menu of celebrations? The essential media library and the “threats and future prospects for our coastline”. Listen for the last one, the political tackle about the warning from the Chamber of Accounts, we will come back to it. Very quickly, the tone was launched, the elected Jean Pierre Filhol calling on his counterpart Corinne Pimiento to collect cents to “offer a medal” to Robert Crauste. “We hear that our finances are healthy, that he saved us, that’s permanent self-promotion! », he judges, full of sarcasm while denouncing “the 11% increase in the local housing tax”. The ears of a certain mayor, whose interview we had already published, must have been ringing.
The media, an eternal stumbling block
The construction of the complex in which the future intercommunal media library is located continues to raise eyebrows. Two visions oppose each other, Robert Crauste recalls that this “indispensable” project is part of the program “for which he was elected by almost 60%”, his opponent pleads financial madness and questions the costing. “When we estimate the total cost of a project, the land area must be taken into account, we fail to count the project management costs. Including tax, we arrive at an amount which is close to €10M! », Demonstrates Charly Crespe for whom public money is “wasted”.
The fact remains that for Robert Crauste, “it is a two-in-one facility (meeting rooms on the ground floor, media library upstairs, editor’s note), this optimizes land use”. As for the cost, the mayor of Grau du Roi readily points out that the equipment benefits from subsidies from the State, the Department and the Region. “The media library will be a place for intergenerational entertainment, a whole program of workshops will be created, around parenting for example,” the mayor of the town told us.
What about health? The psychiatrist in the person of Charly Crespe could not avoid the question, castigating the “two medical centers empty of doctors”. “The city plans to build five offices exclusively reserved for doctors, even though they are not able to attract a single one! », exclaims the opponent, vigorously cheered by the 98% of seniors in the room.
“An estimated 271 homes are threatened in Grau du Roi”
It was also a matter of imbuing the assistance with a “culture of risk” with regard to marine submersion and threats to homes. “Le Grau appears in 1st place among the municipalities threatened in 2040, with an estimated 271 housing units,” indicates the opponent who relies in particular on a report from the Court of Auditors. The person concerned then cites the Boucanet area as a “vulnerable area” with regard to the retreat of the coastline. Charly Crespe denounces the mayor’s “lack of communication”: “the population is not sufficiently informed”. And to also criticize a PLU (Local Urban Plan, editor’s note) for not sufficiently taking into account these risks and the “housing need of permanent residents” (Source: Regional environmental authority missions (MRAe).
“On financial matters, the Chamber had nothing to say about the good management of Grau-du-Roi,” Robert Crauste told us. Forty towns on the French Mediterranean coast were controlled following a national order. » The city councilor of Grau du Roi, who is also first vice-president of ANEL, National Association of Elected Officials of the Coast, is “obviously aware of the advance of the sea”. On this subject, a conference will take place in a few weeks, and a study has been commissioned on this territory, with Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône, Arles and Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the cartography of the evolution of the coastline by 2040 and 2100. “I’m not in denial! », says Robert Crauste.
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