Every week, Midi Libre takes stock of the little news that you might have missed.
The vitriolic portrait of the Ciottist deputy Alexandre Allegret-Pilot
Just by the title, the tone is set: “Alexandre Allegret-Pilot, the deputy Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde”. Two of our colleagues from the daily Le Monde set out, in a long portrait, to decipher the troubled personality of the man who was elected deputy for the 5th constituency of Gard, at the expense of the outgoing LFI candidate Michel Sala. Of the multiplication of his diplomas which make his former classmates say “that he was a megalomaniac” to his “Trumpist-style boasting” on the networks, while returning to “the investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office after the revelations in Le Monde surrounding an illegal decree that he signed, in the middle of the electoral campaign, to open a loan of 1.3 million euros to a non-existent company”as well as on the appeal for annulment of the election of the former President Nordine Tria, the complaint for defamation of Michel Sala and the handrail of Régis Bayle, candidate without label in this same election, only Éric Ciotti seems benevolent Éric Ciotti, relying on the “demonstrated competence” of this enarque. Business to follow…
New stadium project: Proust would not support Rani Assaf
We know that the rag is still burning between the City of Nîmes and the president of Nîmes Olympic Rani Assaf. So much so that many are wondering if the project for a new stadium will finally see the light of day in the region… While the president of Nîmes Métropole, Franck Proust, is still one of the rare elected officials to maintain an exchange with Rani Assaf, himself even does not seem to have many illusions about a common future between the businessman and the Crocos club. Indeed, responding to a banner displayed in the stadium and calling on the “potential future candidate for the 2026 municipal elections”, representatives of the Gladiators and the Save the Olympic Nîmes collective were received on Thursday October 31 by Franck Proust. At the end of a “frank and direct exchange”, the two groups assure it: “Mr. Proust does not intend to endorse Rani Assaf's real estate project in the future! It is only important to maintain a minimum of contact with the club's shareholder in order to facilitate a future sale of Nîmes Olympique. “ Not sure that the current boss of the Crocos is of the same opinion…
Marion Maréchal expected in Gard and Hérault
Marion Maréchal, who has just created her new political party, Identity Liberties, in order to forge “a civilizational right which is at the same time anti-woke, anti-welfare and anti-tax racketeering” should be in Nîmes on Thursday, November 7 before going to a public meeting in the evening in Montpellier. The one who was excluded from Eric Zemmour's party, the last to denounce a “treason” should, according to our information, have lunch in the company of representatives of the military corps, in the Gard prefecture, before going to Hérault.
2025 finance bill: AMF 30 worried about the future
Philippe Ribot, president of the AMF30, asked to be received next week by the prefect of Gard. Next week. The association of mayors and presidents of EPCI du Gard is in fact more than worried about the 2025 finance bill which provides, in particular, for a “unprecedented drain of 8.75 billion euros on communities; drain of 800 million euros from FCTVA; levy of 3 billion euros on large communities; massive increase of 1.3 billion euros in employer retirement contributions territorial public funds; reduction of 500 million euros with the freezing of the DGF, the DETR, the DSIL; cut of the green fund by 1.5 billion euros” or even the “removal of the fund dedicated to extracurricular activities.”
