Posted On December 21, 2024
The year ended very badly for the Grenoble municipal majority in the Metropolitan Council yesterday. The charge of all elected officials from all parties and all municipalities have reduced the Red/Green sect “to acquisitions” as Alain Carignon launched.
A text had been submitted by Christophe Ferrari's left-wing group to ask for explanations on the veto put by Eric Piolle and his gang on the more balanced representation of the municipalities which made parity possible for the municipalities concerned. 9 municipalities will only have one representative instead of two, leading to a crazy injustice, an inequality of representation, since an elected official from Claix will represent twice as many inhabitants as an elected official from Grenoble!
RED/GREEN ELECTED OFFICIALS REFUSE THE DEBATE BY LEAVING THE ROOM
But while the exchange was scheduled so that the municipality of Grenoble could explain the position it had taken, the group of Piollist elected officials left the room so as not to have to respond. Including elected officials from municipalities affected by the measure, such as Lionel Coiffard (Vizille) or elected officials from municipalities who should defend balanced representation, such as the Green Mayors of St Egrève, Laurent Amadieu or Champagnier, Florent Cholat, demonstrating their dependence and their subjugation to the Grenobloise political sect.
“HOW TO CREATE TRUST BY RUNNING FROM DEBATE?”
This empty chair policy has been widely denounced. “Hallucinating, abdication” for Pascal Clouaire, former Deputy Mayor of Eric Piolle. “How can we create trust by avoiding debate?” asked Christophe Revil the Mayor of Claix.
IMPOSE PIOLLE BY FORCE ON THE PRESIDENCY OF THE METROPOLIS
The embarrassment was obvious because everyone understood that the Grenoble municipal majority did not want to answer for their ulterior motives. If it decided to reduce the representativeness of medium-sized municipalities to the detriment of equity and parity, it is to increase Grenoble's power to assert itself as president of the Metropolis. Eric Piolle intends to win this presidency by appearing on the list of Laurence Ruffin, the candidate he chose and intends to impose himself by force.
D. ESCARON: “A PART OF THE MAJORITY AGAINST ANOTHER”
Dominique Escaron, President of an opposition group and Mayor of Sappey en Chartreuse confirmed “that it is a question of preparing for 2026, of the declared desire to strengthen the weight of Grenoble” in the perspective of the presidency and denounced “the collapse of the executive “since the assembly was discussing a text “emanating from one part of the majority against another”. Also denouncing “at politics“and the fact”that we no longer talked about values”, well forgotten in this trench warfare. All leading to disastrous management.
C. FERRARI AND THE PS WILL HAVE TO CHOOSE IN THE ELECTIONS
President of another group and Deputy Mayor of Fontaine, Laurent Thoviste announced that he joined Alain Carignon in his analysis and called on Christophe Ferrari for clarification. Either he and his friends really want a Metropolis serving the communities, or they continue to endorse the concept of Green and Far Left elected officials of excluding entire populations. They cannot continue to strongly criticize the method of the Piollist elected officials and ally themselves again in 2026 in each municipality with them.
PIOLLE’S COUPLE OF FORCE RETURNED AGAINST HIM
Eric Piolle's attempt to win backfired. He opened the debate which will force the candidates to endorse or not this brutality in the reports and this sectarian vision of metropolitan action. He could not have launched his campaign for the Presidency of the Metropolis more clumsily. He who had asked for the date of the Mayors' wishes to attend and campaign will only find a core of supporters embarrassed to be thus labeled with him, to receive him.
“IT’S THE INHABITANTS WHO SUFFER”
It is significant that elected officials like Sylvie Cussigh, Deputy Mayor (PS) of Gières or Anahide Mardirossian, Deputy Mayor (PS) of St Martin le Vinoux have also stepped up to the plate. “It’s the residents who suffer.” to satisfy “the sole will of the city center” said the first. There “anger and dismay” (Christophe Revil) were shared by all elected officials.
“A CHILLING AND BRUTAL DEVICE”
We were struck yesterday at the Metropolitan Council by the fact that “the real face” of the Grenobloise municipality became known or discovered by as many people as possible. THE “chilling and brutal device” (Alain Carignon) that it implements has an educational virtue in fact. Until now, only facilities such as the Plateau, the MJC Prémol or the Cordée in Villeneuve had experimented with it. Only associations, residents and traders had noted its implacability.
THE GRENOBLES SUBJECT TO THE SAME CONTEMPT
Alain Carignon rightly recalled that the contempt of which all elected officials and all municipalities were victims by the departure of the elected representatives of the Grenoble majority, had been experienced a month ago by the residents and traders of avenue Jeanne d 'Arc came to speak before the Metropolitan Council. These same elected officials had left the room, refusing to hear them!
THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS CONSIDERABLE
By refusing the debate, the Red/Green elected officials reject pluralism. They consider that their decisions, even those which affect intermunicipal cooperation, are final. The “collateral damage” is considerable as we see in the issue of cultural subsidies, the issue of water, that of travel.
GREEN/ADES ELECTED OFFICIALS WANT TO INCREASE THE RATE BY 132%
Alain Carignon asked if the rest of the majority – PS/PC/LFI – supported the request of the elected Greens/Ades of Raymond Avrillier, the backbone of the municipality, to increase the property tax rate of the Metropolis by 132% ? As expressed again in their bulletin of December 13.
By refusing to explain his decision to deprive 9 municipalities of fair representation, Eric Piolle, increasingly isolated, who committed “a misuse of procedure” for Christophe Ferrari, has shrunk a little more.
UNDER THE WORST AUSPICE
But he also showed a significant number of citizens and elected officials what his personal ambition was, what his governance was, what his consideration of people and communities was. He opened Pandora's box of future elections under the worst auspices for his camp. Their repercussions will not be without consequences in Grenoble for the municipal election.
