A request for interim relief must be filed with the Montpellier administrative court this Thursday, December 19, 2024 in order to force the mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, to provide proof of his costs financed by the municipality.
Will Louis Aliot have to show his credit card receipts? Opposition elected official and candidate for the 2026 Municipal Elections, Bruno Nougayrède hopes so. He goes even further: this Thursday, December 19, 2024 he should file a request for interim relief before the administrative court of Montpellier.
He requests that the municipality of Perpignan be ordered to communicate the number of bank cards held by the City, the list of people authorized to use them and the details of the expenses made by each of these people with this or these bank card(s). s). And this for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024.I have already asked for these elements in the municipal council in December 2023, without obtaining a responseexplains Bruno Nougayrède. I contacted the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (CADA) which, in May 2024, issued a favorable opinion for this data to be communicated to me. It’s December and I still have nothing. We need to know who pays for the mayor’s travel to Paris when he goes on TV to talk about national politics, or attends his trial.“.
This approach, often initiated by opposition elected officials, is not uncommon within a municipal council. Questioned on the subject, Louis Aliot simply quips: “You teach me (this approach by Bruno Nougayrède, Editor’s note). I also did that at the time with [Michel] Sit one [Jean-Marc] hill…“
