For many elected officials and grassroots associations, this is a half-hearted appointment. Opposition municipal councilor in Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine) since 2020, Juliette Méadel, 50, was appointed, Monday, December 23, Minister Delegate in charge of the city to the Minister of Regional Planning and Decentralization , François Rebsamen.
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Coming from the ranks of the Socialist Party, of which she was spokesperson in 2014 before being removed four years later for having supported Emmanuel Macron, this close friend of Manuel Valls had been Secretary of State responsible for assistance to victims, from 2016 to 2017, under the presidency of François Hollande.
If the return within the government of a portfolio dedicated to urban policy is welcomed by local stakeholders and seen as a positive signal – it had disappeared from the previous government, before being attached to the Ministry of Housing and Development. urban renovation by Valérie Létard, a fine connoisseur of the subject – the choice of Juliette Méadel leaves one doubtful. “I didn’t know her the day before yesterday. I have never heard her on these subjectscomments Gilles Leproust, president of the City and Suburbs association and mayor of Allonnes (Sarthe, French Communist Party). But I already wrote him a message to tell him that we were at his disposal for [nous] get to work as quickly as possible. »
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