It only took a few minutes for Mons en Mieux to react to the decision of the city of Mons to bring forward the opening time of the meetings of the municipal council. And the least we can write is that with Georges-Louis Bouchez, the measure goes badly. The leader also intends to lodge an appeal in the coming days, and, as president of the Reform Movement, to do his best to take legislative measures in the matter.
In the meantime, the leader is firing red balls at the majority, and even more so at the mayor, Nicolas Martin. “This Tuesday evening, I just touched a word to him because I had heard of this possibility. He replied that a reflection was carried out. The day following this exchange, we received the press release from the city of Mons. It’s hypocrisy.” plague Georges-Louis Bouchez. “Nicolas Martin is quite simply a little dictator who can’t stand being stood up to him.”
As we know, exchanges have already been organized between the municipal college and the various group leaders. So far, no provision has made it possible to reduce the length of the debates. “The solution lies in a change of chairman of the board. From the moment the mayor arbitrates and changes the rules according to the speeches, nothing can come of it. He is the first to put a layer on it so as not to leave the last word to the opposition.”
Georges-Louis Bouchez therefore intends to file an appeal. “It is an anti-democratic provision, especially since political leave is not guaranteed. A series of people will not be able to attend the debates. With such a measure, the majority closes the door to people whose job is not politics, to the self-employed, to people who work in the private sector. We have known from the beginning that the will of the majority is to stifle the opposition, to exclude people who do not agree with it. This provision is further proof of that.”
Will the president of the MR manage to free himself to attend the council, which will begin in October at 2 p.m.? The answer mightn’t be clearer. “It might still start at two in the morning or be held on New Year’s Eve that I would be there. It’s not going to be easy, it’s a constraint but if they want to avoid me, it’s not with this measure that they will succeed.”
The political return therefore begins as it had ended: in the atmosphere.
