THE Beauvais Municipal Council was turbulent this Thursday evening, April 3. Finally, the prelude of the council more precisely. After a remark of the first finance assistant Lionel Chiss, suggesting that part of the elected municipal officials on the left would be anti-Semitic, the opposition has insurgent loudly and ended up leaving. Leaving the majority to vote for deliberations. An incident that may not stop there. The left announces that it has placed a handrail for public insult. “”We study all possible appeals», Specifies Roxane Lundy. Lionel Chiss, he defends himself from such a implication. Although all observers outside the council have understood the same thing.
It was however an ordinary Thursday evening of municipal council in Beauvais. The good weather allowed to hear the sound of the coffee terraces on Place Jeanne-Hachette. Almost as well as the speeches of elected officials in these microphones not terrible for the public at the bottom of the room. The agenda did not present a truly divisive subject. The two RN councilors were absent. Only the approaching municipal elections could reach the meeting. And that may be what happened.
A stronger tension for a few months
Before attacking the agenda, the opponent Roxane Lundy (generation.s) asked that the closure of downtown Fnac is tackled, which is accepted by the mayor. She attributes this decision of manager Olivier Leroux to the political choices of the majority, in particular with paid parking. The majority denies it and evokes a decision of a private (Mr. Leroux) on which she has no power. The first concerned finally arrived in the middle of advice to give its version but this is not what set fire to the powder.
While Olivier Leroux presented the reasons for its closure to the press, the elected officials continued the debate which expanded to the city center trade, even to the trade at all. A great argument. In no case beneficial to the affairs of the city but nothing unusual so far. Up to a sentence from Lionel Chiss who, feeling attacked, retorts: “I used to be assimilated to employers, money, capital … I don’t want to see something other than clumsiness or a political discourse. I hope I don’t see anything else.»»
A first session interruption
This “I hope I don’t see something elseHeard of innuendo triggered an epidermal reaction in the ranks of the left. And beautiful smiles in the entourage of the mayor. But who faded when the cries of the opposition escaped the control of Franck Pia, who normally presides over the assembly. A first session interruption is decided.
On the return, the group of Roxane Lundy is formal: “As long as there has not been an extremely clear focus we will not be able to resume the advice. We cannot accept what just happened», Storms the leader. The mayor and his first assistant refute any implication. No one believes it. And all the elected officials, without exception, leave the room loudly. Except the national rally which was not already there.
An improvised press conference
At that time, the tone changed in the ranks of the majority. Mamadou Ly is sent on the front line to say how racist Lionel Chiss is. Even if, a priori, this is not the subject. The first assistant speaks and repeats that there was no innuendo in his words. And Franck Pia concludes by letting go of his deserter opposition: “Opposition elected officials who are of extreme bad faith. I am not destabilizedhe promises. They don’t want a serene debate, they want the mess.»»
It is not destabilized but, anyway, a press conference is hastily organized at the end of the council. Which never usually happens. There, all the elected officials of the majority have the mission of appearing united and in support of Lionel Chiss. Pretending not to understand what happened and castigated the violence of the reaction of the left. See below.
Applicants for the Abstention Island
In this story, the big losers could well be the Beauvaisiens. Apart from reality TV lovers, the spectacle given on both sides of the municipal political spectrum has something to disinterest. Already that participation in the elections is not brilliant, this kind of scene is not likely to reconcile the inhabitants with politics. While it’s been several months since each public meeting is tense between the right and the left. And that it is still a year before the next elections …
The series continued online, on social networks, this Friday, April 4. Everyone highlighting their position and taxing the opposite camps of the lowest politicarded maneuvers.
