For other users it is an illegitimate costYou want definitely to the CGT and the CFDT190 units and everyone agrees that it is too accumulated these groups are a majority of the populationSince the publication of the press release UIt would be wrong to howl with the wolvesIt will necessarily be found an alternativeWe focus our development on the Italy and GermanyBut this speech style in the current contextWould otherwise in the case of cataclysm type 2001The spirit of the SFIO plane on the Hall. Emblem of the district, the giant effigy of Pierre Degeyter, Belgian composer of the music of the international, with his red scarf knotted around his neck, throne at the entrance. The four Miss Fives, two blondes and two Brown, wisely cross their legs and adjust their silver Diadems. There is a child good atmosphere in this delightful Theatre in the popular district of Fives-Lille, where Roger Salengro, the great activist in the labour movement was born. Some 200 Fivois and Fivoises came to attend to the wishes of Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, at the Council of the district. A determined tone, it evokes the memory of the workers "departing to the rhythm of sirens in the morning". It conquered land. A few days ago, it offered a bike "customized" Nicolas Sarkozy to celebrate installation of Decathlon on the former site of the Altadis of Fives plant. Great art.
Known for his authoritarian style and his "bad character", the ex - "Lady 35 hours" to be suddenly transformed in "beast of com'" "Martine has changed", say some observers. It does not manage a city of 226.000 inhabitants (1.2 million for the agglomeration in the broad sense), including 6 districts on 10, 65 of the population, are classified as "urban policy" without a good dose of voluntarism. "Since the arrival of Martine Aubry, in 2001, there was a true cultural revolution in the methods." It imported practices of Minister extremely effective, says Pierre Mathiot, Director of Science po Lille. It has changed the template without change of party. "Some have seen the end of clientelism or, at least, a form of"break"with the"hand sewn consensus"Mauroy method "She reigned through terror, it is pure bigotry," said the candidate for the UMP in City Hall, Sébastien Huyghe, who beat at the legislative elections of 2002. "It is still convinced that it is right and heading to the end", adds this member for 38 years, who chose the niece of Pierre Mauroy, Brigitte Mauroy (ex - PRG), as number two on its "open list".
"A culture of the result."
However, the Director General of the Galeries Lafayette, Paul Delaoutre, the Mayor of Lille has changed since 2001. "At the beginning of its mandate, it had created a monthly meeting of important actors from the city." But it was hardly listening. It was his ideas. "Today, it has improved its quality of listening," said the former boss of La Redoute. This has not prevented Martine Aubry to demonstrate his displeasure when Edhec (School of higher commercial studies of the North) has recently chosen to transfer his Lille campus Cross (near Roubaix), the municipality where the proportion of taxpayers subject to EWB is the highest of France. With the project controversial "grand stage" Villeneuve - d'Ascq to 500 million euros, which the record has been picked up by Pierre Mauroy, President of Lille Métropole, and conceded the Group casino Lucien Barrière in 2007, it is part of "subjects that get angry..."
"Martine Aubry has a culture of the result," said the Director General of the services of the Town Hall, Jean-Marc Germain. Beauvoir, the former Director of cabinet Deputy Martine Aubry at the Department of employment from 1997 to 2000, which is also the husband of Anne Hidalgo, first Deputy of Bertrand Delanoë in Paris, reigns over the administration of 4.500 employees. "She loves the collegiality." "All decisions are made on a collective mode", says the national delegate of the PS to work and employment, proudly brandishing the plans of the architect in vogue Rudy Ricciotti for a room of sports in 2010. "Mayonnaise is taking in all areas," he added. Everyone recognizes that the success of the European cultural capital Lille operation, in 2004, with its 9 million visitors, was a shock. "There are only five years, it still ramait when it is said that there was not that Paris-Bordeaux-Marseille. "Today, the city has become attractive for executives and companies," he says.
Building a collective vision
Early in his term, Martine Aubry has organized the whole municipal team around eight large poles (economic development and finance, Social Affairs and education, green spaces, sustainable development...). Initially, 8 elected officials in charge of these files (about 15 assistants) met every Monday morning to learn to work together and build a collective vision of the city very upstream. Today, the "coordination of the Mayor" is meeting every three weeks. At the same time, the 10 Presidents of the Councils of the (equivalent of the mayors of borough) neighborhoods, created 30 years ago by Pierre Mauroy, occur twice per month. They have to deal with the problems of daily life and mission to the difficulties.
"Martine is a very big bosseuse." "It leads everyone in his wake", said Pierre de Saintignon, first Deputy Mayor. "It assumes the governance of the city in a highly participatory manner," adds the cousin of the Vendéen Philippe de Villiers de Saintignon, also Vice-President of the Regional Council responsible for economic development. "His trademark, it's frankness." "Each can give his opinion, whatever it may be," said the first
Assistant. A way to undermine the reputation of autocrat who often sticks to the skin of the Mayor of Lille. "It's true, she played collective with us at the point where there was an electoral forces report", confirms the leader of the Greens, Eric Quiquet, which is 15.5 in the first round of the municipal in 2001. But the Deputy Mayor responsible for the environment also regretted that "municipal services have been of no help on the car-sharing", in Lille operation successfully since February 2007.Despite a difficult start, the Aubry method has been proven. Some poor districts of Lille-Sud are cleaner than the 6th arrondissement of Paris. "Martine had the stroke of genius to pre-empt a lot of land at the beginning of term." "It's a visionary, but with the feet on the ground", launches the Assistant to the policy of the city, Walid Hanna, "aubryiste but not Socialist. The daughter of Jacques Delors combines a good knowledge of the terrain with its from address book of his ministerial past.
The shadow of the Patriarch
Yet, the passage of witness Mauroy-Aubry, in March 2001, has not been easy. Relations have been complicated with the Patriarch, who will celebrate its eighty years on July 5, 2008, after having reigned for thirty years Lille and, since 1989, its urban community (CUDL), consisting of the 85 communes of the metropolis. Certainly, it was he who had called Martine Aubry to the rescue, as early as 1994, fear of losing the city. But some whisper that great craftsman of the "tertiary turbine" Euralille, the former Mayor, is in mordrait sometimes almost fingers. In February 2006, "Le Parisien" was reported "tensions" between former Prime Minister and the dauphine, whose responsibility is now allocated to stairway enclosures. These tensions were sources of friction on some issues, such as those of the large stadium or the casino. "At the beginning, Pierre Mauroy did nothing to help him." It is the urban community which holds the bulk of financial resources. It did not nor very good relationships with local industry, the Mulliez or Bonduelle... "But she managed to prevail in a difficult environment," says a pattern.
The heir does not hide its difference with his "mentor". "It is not the same generation and is not the same methods." Stone is a man of intuition and vision; After, he left to do. "Me, I like go to the end when I launched an idea", said Martine Aubry, recalling that his two years with Pechiney passage gave him a certain vision of the company. "Pierre Mauroy transmitted me the passion for this city." At the time when it was at the bottom of the hole, he saw more than others. I am in this line here. But when I arrived in 2001, it was still a city two-speed, with very rich and the poor rich very poor. The middle classes were parties in the suburbs or in the new city of Villeneuve-d'Ascq. "My concern is that economic development is gaining all districts," adds that displayed a passion for its 6 major urban development projects.
Today, despite social indicators unfavourable 42 of non-taxable households and average income per capita (16.665 euros) lowest first 10 French cities , Lille has reduced to a third party his debt (EUR 800 per capita) EUR 185 million, against EUR 220 million in 2001. She claims highly its status of "first city of left" (60 in the second round of the legislative elections of 2007). Although unemployment is still high (10.2), Martine Aubry prides itself for having back companies (Galeries Lafayette, Decathlon B'Twin, Bayer Schering, ) "It has welcomed and provided all the services of the city to our" confirms Paul Delaoutre.
Suspense to the urban community
With Marseille and Montpellier, Lille is one of the rare large French cities to "keep the popular classes within" to maintain its diversity, pounding the entourage of Martine Aubry. But the UMP candidate, Sébastien Huygue, denounced "the flight of the middle classes" of the centre of Lille and the impoverishment of the southern districts. "The city is not enough land to develop tertiary", he rebelled.
In the "mammoth Aubry", many observers believe that the candidate of the UMP, Sébastien Huyghe, is a little light, despite its side "good student". His only chance, it is that there will be no triangular with the national Front.However, in the battle for the Presidency of the urban community, the candidate of the UMP, Marc-Philippe Daubresse, former Christian Democrat, seems able to prevail if Tourcoing toggle on the right. "The success of Lille 2004 provides ten cubits in advance to Martine Aubry on its competitors." But it remains a thriller to the urban community, where Pierre Mauroy was the hand sewn with Commons "non-aligned". "All will play in Tourcoing," said Patrick Peugeot, President of honour of the world and President of the Council of development of the CUDL.
"The left will bring to to support Martine". "I do not see the use of a third man," says Pierre Mauroy. While admitting that an unknown remains on the urban community. It does not derive as easily a line under thirty-five years of reign.
