Bordeaux, Marseille, Lille … left footing the bill in … – The Point

logical consequence of the defeat of the Left in the municipal elections, Most urban communities are now under the control of the right, however, the Socialists reaching limit the damage here and there.

The right, including the UMP, is thus assured a new lever power, valuable for national ambition and conquest that will allow him to prove himself at the local level.

metropolises, urban communities, and to a lesser extent, urban communities around medium-sized cities brew indeed considerable sums of money: Greater Lyon (1.35 million) manages a budget close to € 2 billion, Lille (1.1 million inhabitants) of an envelope . 1.7 md

Urban communities (13 out of 15 will become cities in January 2016 with more powers) do indeed have skills far beyond those of the cities that are: development economic, spatial planning, waste management, habitat and housing, roads and sanitation and (but not always) transport.

All new EU executive (President and Vice-Presidents) will be in place on May 3 at the latest.

Last ballot date Lille Métropole is no longer in the hands of the socialists who “reigned” for half a century and are a minority, after the loss of Roubaix and Tourcoing, among others. It is however with the support of Martine Aubry that was elected mayor without a label of a rural municipality near Damien Castelain. The voting portends a consensual management, PS and UMP do not consider themselves in opposition

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At the same time, Alain Juppé, Mayor re-elected Bordeaux from the first round with 61% of the vote, took over the presidency of the Urban Community of Bordeaux (CUB), which switched right after the loss of six mayors from the left. But a “cooperation agreement” was reached between right, PS, PCF and EELV to manage all the urban community, as was already the case under the outgoing chair of Vincent Feltesse (PS).

Although in the minority voice, Gérard Collomb (PS) has managed to retain the direction of Grand Lyon with the assistance of various elected right. January 1, 2015, recovering the powers of the General Council, he will manage a budget of € 3.5 billion.

In Marseille, after the re-election of Jean-Claude Gaudin, this is one of its UMP friends, Guy Teissier, who has the daunting task of bringing the font early 2016 the city, dedicated to public obloquy elected by common devices.

Among the other major cities, Toulouse should also fall into the lap of the right on April 24, as Caen 25. avenge Should stay in left Montpellier and Grenoble.

If Avignon is the only major city in France won by the left on March 30, the urban community has escaped him, the 11 elected National Front candidate who voted for the UMP. But both sides have denied any agreement.

On the contrary, despite the loss of Limoges, PS retains control of the metropolitan area (220,000 inhabitants). Not surprisingly, it also retained Dijon.

But after taking the central cities, the right has become the head of intercommunal Amiens, Reims, Charleville-Mézières, Tours, Roanne and Pau where François Bayrou now stack the mayor and president of the intermunicipal. Intermunicipal de Saint-Etienne and Chambery should also move to the right.