Laurent Cathala is in search of a ninth time period | EUROtoday

The cabinets of his library are full of a number of statuettes and different Beninese trinkets, presents from generations of gamers from the native soccer group to their mayor. They appear to occupy each nook of Laurent Cathala’s huge workplace, like so many marks of the forty-nine years spent on the head of the town of Créteil. The elected socialist, nonetheless, begins his ninth municipal marketing campaign with out qualms. “People talk to me about the mayor’s age, but I still have things to do”he says calmly.

Despite the promise made six years in the past that 2020 can be his final election, the socialist intends to serve a brand new mandate, to dam La France insoumise: “I don’t want to give them the keys to city hall. » His age, 80, is not a subject for the former Fabiusian, he insists with a weathered smile. “Besides, I have a renewed list. » A list of alliances with the Communist Party alone, the Ecologists having declined after the mayor’s refusal to include the closure of the incineration plant in his program.

Laurent Cathala declares that he wants to finish his work on planning the city. An urban renovation in the priority district of Haut du Mont-Mesly with a park, another green space in the real estate complex of 800 housing units which will be built on the sidelines of the new Grand Paris Express station, an educational farm… His program has no shortage of projects to finalize, he assures. With a list entitled “Good together”, he emphasizes the necessity to “stability”, “experience”and repeats that he desires “take care” of a metropolis that he “in the flesh”.

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