Yverdon: Gildo Dall'Aglio in the running to rebalance the forces in the Executive

He is a Green Liberal who will defend the colors of the center-right and the right during the complementary election to the Municipality of Yverdon. In the particular context of this blitzkrieg which follows the death of socialist Jean-Claude Ruchet This fall, the PLR, the UDC and the Vert'liberals announced together this Wednesday afternoon that Gildo Dall'Aglio will be their champion for the February 9 election. He will be opposed to socialist Julien Wicki and to independent Ruben Ramchurnwhose respective candidacies were officially submitted on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“We believe that only by joining forces can we correct the inconsistency in the current distribution of seats. The 4-3 that we are aiming for is much more in line with the forces present within the Municipal Council than the 5-2 that we know today,” notes the president of the Vert’liberaux, Pierre-Henri Meystre.

In addition to the support of three parties of the agreement, the 73-year-old man has a long experience of municipal administration. For around thirty years, he directed the Yverdon Social Security Service, alongside his position as director of the Regional Social Center.

Change of course in 2018

He has long put his social values ​​at the service of the PS, under whose colors he joined the ranks of the Municipal Council in 2016. But it was under the Vert'libérale banner that he was re-elected five years later. “I left the socialists in 2018, because I needed to find a certain freedom of speech,” he explains. A change of direction that he also justifies by what he considers to be “a constant drift” of his former party “towards dogmatism and the extreme left”.

“Beyond his past career, it is his current positions and the themes that he wants to defend today that we rally around,” says Kevin Delay, member of the UDC section of Yverdon.

The municipal finance file, whose budget is red for the third year in a row, is obviously one of the latter. “If elected, I will fight to make the city more attractive for wealthy taxpayers,” he notes, emphasizing that Yverdon has the lowest tax point of the large Vaudois municipalities.

Among its concerns are better accessibility to the city center, a less dogmatic parking policy and the strengthening of preventive measures to guarantee better security, particularly around Place d'Armes. The latter is also at the heart of its concerns. Gildo Dall'Aglio intends to continue the fight for a sufficiently equipped underground car park and to redevelop its surface in order to make it as user-friendly as possible for the population.

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