In Lyon, Grégory Doucet abruptly dismisses his cultural assistant from his duties | EUROtoday

Made up of ecologists and varied left-wing parts, the municipal majority of Lyon goes by means of a severe and unprecedented disaster. Mayor Grégory Doucet (Les Ecologistes) dismissed Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert, his assistant for tradition, member of the Lyon en commun group, positioned on the far left of the municipal chessboard. The resolution was made by a cellphone name, adopted by a three-line e-mail, late Monday, May 13. The mayor criticized the deputy “a breakdown of trust” by informing him of his alternative.

Mr. Doucet believes that the elected official just lately made feedback that had been too abrupt, by making their electronic mail exchanges public. “This behavior endangers the functioning of the majority and the municipal administration”justifies the mayor's entourage. “I myself haven't had any confidence for some time. I laid the foundations of an open and coherent cultural policy that we had defined together. This episode is the result of an electoral calculation. I was disowned in an instrumentalized way”reacted Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert to the World.

The fireplace had been smoldering for a number of weeks inside the municipal govt, over the administration of the conservatory with regional affect, financed to the tune of 8.3 million euros by town, out of a complete funds of 12 million. Ex officio President of the Board of Directors, Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert affirms that she acquired “several serious alerts” on the deterioration of the social local weather inside the institution which has 2,300 college students and 280 workers.

“At the end of what I could do”

She had requested for brand spanking new administration instruments and a listing of kit, then she advised to the director of the conservatory, near retirement age, that the renewal of her contract, set for May 2024, was not going to occur. self. The tradition assistant underwent an eventful board assembly on April 8. The 5 elected environmentalists of the council didn’t vote on the provisional funds of the conservatory, earlier than demanding his withdrawal from the presidency, in a letter co-signed with right-wing elected officers. What the mayor of Lyon requested in flip, invoking a “imperative of serenity”.

For Nathalie Perrin-Gilbert, this injunction marked a turning level. She then took the lead, deciding to “resign permanently” of the presidency of the music conservatory, however putting the blame on the mayor, responsible, in keeping with her, of not having supported her as a accomplice of the bulk.

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