Olympic Games in Seine-Saint-Denis, European elections, housing law… Stéphane Troussel’s “8h30 franceinfo”

The PS president of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday May 12, 2024.

Stéphane Troussel, socialist president of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Sunday May 12, 2024. Olympic Games European elections and housing law… He answered questions from Jean-Rémi Baudot and Agathe Lambret.

Olympic Games: “the legacy will be there”

A few weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, Stéphane Troussel wants to reassure about the future of housing and infrastructure built for the occasion in the department. “The legacy will be there and the promises will be kept”assures the PS president of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, “the challenge is that it is a celebration for everyone”.

The challenge in the coming weeks will be to allow the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis to benefit from the event by providing free tickets and organizing celebration sites.”

Europeans: Raphaël Glucksmann, a campaign for “raise the purchasing power of the most modest”

Only four weeks until the European elections. The list of the Place Publique-PS candidate is credited with around 13% of voting intentions in the polls, a gap which is narrowing with the majority candidate, Valérie Hayer.

“I believe that Raphaël Glucksmann can do better, he is an incarnation and can bring together the left against the majority and the extreme right”assures Stéphane Troussel.

Housing law: a text which will “accelerate impoverishment a little further”

The government presented its pdraft law on housing. Among the points of this reform is the tightening of the rules for tenants of social housing whose income exceeds the ceilings. A “diversion” for Stéphane Troussel.

“If this law really aimed to drive the middle categories out of social housing, it would therefore further accelerate impoverishment” warns the president of Seine-Saint-Denis. “We are going to fight this reform in Parliament to try to make it fail.”

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