Elian Cellier goes on the offensive during the wishes of the Gard Rhone section of the Communist Party in Bagnols-sur-Cèze

“You should never give a microphone to a communist, he always has things to say.” During the greetings, Saturday January 18, Elian Cellier, secretary of the Gard Rhone section of the PCF, developed numerous subjects in front of around fifty people, at the Business Office. Indeed, the Bagnolais had a lot to say about the international, national and local situation.
On health, he illustrated by example. This summer, Elian Cellier underwent surgery,” on an outpatient basis. I was asked to leave my bed at night. I was incapable of it. I had to fight with the surgeon. Why are these operations done on an outpatient basis? To save money. The accounting part took precedence over the medical part. These days, hospitals are clogged with the flu epidemic. It’s surreal.” He denounces a scandal, in “the seventh world power”. Supported by testimonies he hears daily from those who do not have a treating doctor. Who are not treated in time. With sometimes dramatic consequences. The history professor that he is recalled: “1944 saw the establishment of the National Council of Resistance. At the Liberation, we could finance Social Security and today that would no longer be possible?”

“They favor private interests over collective interests”

Then, Elian Cellier did not fail to make the rounds of local news and grilled those who are in charge: “When we support Macron, we cannot complain that municipal allocations are falling and that public services are being sacrificed.”
On the Bagnols mosque, “is it desirable to close it and send the faithful back to clandestine prayers in the cellars? I am secular but let's do everything so that all the inhabitants of the territory live in harmony”. On the daily lives of residents,“Bagnols, it’s this poverty, it’s the dealers in Escanaux, at the Citadelle, it’s the waste with the magnificent management of the incentive tax, it’s the closed stores and the hole in the old Monoprix site”. Recalling the Scène campaign file (a project which did not come to fruition and cost the Agglo €650,000) and evoking Bagnols beach at Rimbaud park, the Domaine de Brès between Verfeuil and Goudargues (“ constructions built illegally which should simply be destroyed”) and the Halles de la Cèze:“Proof that they are not left-wing, they always favor private interests over collective interests.”

When will the multimodal exchange hubs be inaugurated?

On the train backrest (” without the communists, there would be no trains in Bagnols”), Elian Cellier is surprised that the multimodal exchange hubs (PEM, in Bagnols and Pont) have not been inaugurated. “What are we waiting for?” He criticized the lack of consultation with the TER users' association for the Bagnols PEM, the parking lot on the other side of the track, “nonsense”.

On economic activity in the Rhone Gard, Elian Cellier denounced “the failures of the outgoing team of the agglomeration […]. L'Ardoise is a site which allows it to be both a place of rail transport and a river port […] It's time to seriously work on a multimodal corridor.”. On Marcoule,“Orano Démantelement will disappear at the end of 2025, employees will suffer”. After a detailed development, he launched: “ We have realistic and structuring projects. ”

2026, the call for the union of the left

By 2026, municipal elections: “The union, during the legislative elections, demonstrated that we can win. Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past. I solemnly call for union and to no longer leave with lists with vague ideological contours.”
On the pension issue, as for others, “money exists, you just have to go and find it in the right pockets”. In conclusion, he urged people not to give up: “Let’s mobilize for 2025, there is so much to do.”