This Thursday, before receive Yannick Jadot on his land, the environmentalist presidential candidate, who beat him in the EELV primaries, Eric Piolle took the time to send his wishes for 2022 to the local press, as tradition dictates.
Its news, Saturday January 15, it will be the launch of Grenoble, European Green Capital 2022, but without Emmanuel Macron, who should have come and who will send his Minister of Ecological Transition instead. Eric Piolle regrets the “evasionof the Head of State who “tour backs to thousands of people who are fighting against global warming.“But he invited young climate activists to launch the festivities, which however had to be scaled down, due to Covid, and which will revolve around science, culture and citizen participation.
Making SUV Owners Pay
Eric Piolle announced, during his long speech, parking price reform in 2023-2024. “We want to tax the heaviest vehicles, such as SUVs, a plague for the planet. It weighs almost two tons, it emits greenhouse gases to carry around people between 50 and 90 kilos.”
Video verbalization tested in the city center
In the same vein, we learn that the video-verbalization of vehicles will begin to fight against road incivilities. A first test will take place in front of the tourist office, at the taxi rank where they often park “cars that have nothing to do with it”.
As for free public transport on weekends: “We’re not there yet” regrets the mayor of Grenoble, who is making a barely veiled allusion to the policy pursued by the SMMAG, the joint mobility union for the Grenoble area, whose policy of reducing the supply of transport he also denounces.
Preserving the mental health of the population
Eric Piolle also mentions the work done by his majority towards the weakest: “I wrote to Emmanuel Macron to denounce the unworthy conditions of emergency accommodation. I did not have any answer.” Likewise, he criticizes the mental health conferences that took place last year. “A fiasco” he asserts. And he takes the opportunity to salute Stromae who made his depression a song he performed live last Sunday in TF1’s 20-hour newscast. Later in the morning, in a tweet, he will go so far as to challenge the artist to sponsor the work that Grenoble wishes to do around mental health.
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Before the Valencia court on March 1
A few questions were then put to him. On his possible candidacy for the legislative elections? “I will not answer this question“he launches. Of which act.
Regarding his trial on March 1, before the Valencia court for favoritism in the awarding of contracts during the Tile Festival in 2015 and 2016, he replied: “It is a whole chain of decision that is judged. I am the head of this organization. The Audit Bench felt that we should have done otherwise. The court will rule on this technical point. But I’m not worried.”
The water debt
This then allows him to bounce back on another subject which makes him indignant and to tackle the Metropolis again, whose presidency escaped, in 2020, from one of his relatives. As required by law, the management of water in Grenoble has been delegated to Grenoble Alpes Métropole in 2015, which is now claiming 1.5 million euros from the City. But Grenoble does not want to let it go. “I am not fooled by the political dimension of this. It’s incredible. We’ll settle this in court.” concludes Eric Piolle