Bertrand Delanoë

Biography

Childhood and political career

Born the May 30th 1950 with Tunis, (in a family originating in Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon in Breton ascent ) Bertrand Delanoë grows with Bizerte. At 5 years, he becomes member of the Small Singers of Sands, a choral society depending on the Petits Singers to the Wood Cross. He will tell later that this experiment was " its more beautiful memory of enfance". During her Adolescence, its family comes to settle in France, with Rodez (Aveyron). It made its secondary studies there, at the Sainte-Marie Institution.

it adheres to the PS in 1971

It takes its first steps in policy as of the 23 years age, with Rodez, as a secretary of the Federation of the Socialists of the Aveyron.

He is noticed for his talents of speaker by the chief of the Socialist party at the national level, François Mitterrand, this one makes it go up to Paris at the beginning of the Années 1970.

With the municipal elections of 1977, it is elected with the Council of Paris in company of Lionel Jospin, Claude Estier, Daniel Vaillant (famous “the band of XVIIIe”) on the list of left taken along by the communist deputy Louis Baillot. He is re-elected with the Council of Paris in 1983 and 1989).

He is elected appointed (PS) of Paris in 1981; he is elected appointed of Montmartre (XVIII {{E}} district of Paris). He becomes then spokesperson of the PS, that is to say number three national.

At the time of the legislative elections of 1986, it wants to try to leave Paris to try to be established electorally with Avignon, but its parachuting is refused by the local militants. It then invests advantage in its community activities, the council in communication, while preserving its place at the Council of Paris.

In 1988, he is candidate with the legislative elections in the 18th district of Paris. It is then beaten by the candidate RPR Alain Juppe, adviser of the 18th district, is associated with the mayor of Paris and former minister for the Budget (1986 - 1988).

In 1993, it succeeds Georges Sarre (outgoing following her rallying with MRC of Jean-Pierre Chevènement), like chair group socialist & related the Council of Paris becoming thus the chief of the independent group of the municipal opposition.

In 1995, it conducts the municipal campaign of the Parisian left against Jean Tiberi, candidate RPR successor of the former mayor Jacques Chirac (elected President of the Republic). The lists of left then gain six districts (III {{E}}, X {{E}}, XI {{E}}, XVIII {{E}}, XIX {{E}} and XX {{E}} district) over the twenties which the line held since 1983 (monopoly then called the “Grand slam”).

In September 1995, it is elected senator (PS) of Paris (1995 and becomes secretary of the Commission of the Foreign affairs and Defense .

Election with the town hall of Paris (March 2001)

Context

The line arises divided to the municipal elections of March 2001, with two candidates: Jean Tiberi, mayor RPR dissenting and outgoing and Philippe Séguin, former RPR deputy of the the Vosges, former minister, former president of the National Assembly and former president of RPR, combined with UDF and DLL.

On their side, the Socialists organize primary educations between Jack Lang, then Maire of Blois, and Bertrand Delanoë, chief of the municipal opposition since 1993, but little known of the general public. The debates are sharp; Lyne Cohen Solal, partisane of Lang, speaks for example about “error of casting” in connection with the candidature of Delanoë. But against any waiting, Jack Lang gives up the competition to become Minister for State education in the government of Lionel Jospin, allowing Bertrand Delanoë to gain the nomination, to gather the Socialists, the left (PCF, MRC…) and to tie contacts with the Greens with an aim of gathering the left with the second turn.

Its program is centered on political expansion, tax stability, the transparency, the consultation (the Councils of districts, Conseils of youth, Maison of the initiatives coeds, Maisons of associations, counts returned mandate annual…), the solidarity, the doubling of the budgets culture, the doubling of the sporting investments, intensification of the efforts on the social Housing and early childhood, the fight against the Pollution, the development of clean transport (drunk, Tram, bicycles…), cleanliness and the support for local community life.

First turn

The left (Communist S, chevenementists of the MDC and Socialists) is gathered behind the candidature of Bertrand Delanoë, whereas the Greens (carried out by Yves Contassot, tallies of the Banque de France), make list with share, while envisaging a fusion of the lists to the second turn.

At the evening of the first turn, vis-a-vis this list of left and with that of the ecologists, the line is majority of a few thousands of voice in voice on the capital but its candidates are irreconcilable (in all the districts except IXeoù Pierre Lellouche derogates from the rule emitted by Philippe Seguin excluding any fusion with the lists from Jean Tiberi). The Greens, them, amalgamate as envisaged with the lists of Bertrand Delanoë in all the districts.

Second turn

At the evening of the second turn the March 18th 2001, Bertrand Delanoë is elected mayor of Paris with a little more than 49,59% of the voices, against 50,37% with the divided right-hand side (33,97% for the lists Seguin, 15,20% for the Tiberi lists and 2,85% for right lists various). It is IXe, XIIe and XIVe districts which open the doors of the Parisian municipality to him when it is proven that the left-wing candidate profits of more than voice in advance on that of right-hand side.

Minority of approximately 4.000 votes but majority of many gained districts and of many advisers of Paris (163 elected officials in all, who are at the same time city council men and general advisers, Paris being at the same time Ville and department), the left gains twelve districts out of twenty, some of them of accuracy with 220 votes in advance in IIe district, 878 votes in IVe district with the profit of Dominique Bertinotti or 1013 votes in advance in XIIe, whereas the line gains accuracy only in Ier district with 285 votes in advance for the candidate tiberist Jean-François Legaret. The left preserves the six districts already gained in 1995 and gains IIe, IVe, IXe, XIIe, XIIIe & XIVe districts.

The electoral geography then highlights a right/left fracture inside Paris, because all the districts gained by the left are located at the east and with center-is, whereas the easy districts of the center and the west of the capital (called sometimes “beautiful quarters”) massively voted for the right-wing candidates (72,98% in VIIe district or 80% in XVIe district, where two right-wing candidates were maintained for the second turn).

On these twelve districts gained by the left, is directed by a mayor Vert (IIe), another by a MRC (XIe, directed by the chevenementist Georges Sarre), the ten others are it by elected officials PS including two women mayors for IVe and XIIe).

Bertrand Delanoë is thus elected mayor of Paris and succeeds Jacques Chirac (of which the mandate will have lasted 18 years, of 1977 to 1995), and in Jean Tiberi (six years, of 1995 to 2001). It was the first time since 1871 - at the time of the Commune of Paris - that the alliance of the left took, except revolutionary context, the head of the municipal council (there was not of mayor of Paris of 1871 with 1977, year of election of Chirac, but the municipal council had always been dominated by the line).

Following his election with the town hall, Bertrand Delanoë decides to resign of his post of Senator de Paris whom it occupied since 1998.

Explanations of the victory of the left in Paris

The victory of the left to the municipal elections of 2001 has been in particular explained by the divisions exacerbated within the Parisian, majority line in Paris for hundred years and which led it to present two concurrent lists in each district. It would be thus thanks to this exceptional economic situation of a fractured right-hand side and a plain left that Delanoë would have gained.

The negative image conveyed by politico-financial businesses, in which Jean Tiberi and several other members of the municipal majority were then suspected of having taken part, would have also benefitted the lists from the left.

Several newspapers (the Express train, Le Figaro, the Point, Le Monde, Nouvel Observateur) moreover partially explained the victory of Delanoë by the vote of a new called social category “sores” (Middle-class man-Bohemian), which would have made the difference while making rock on the left certain districts “traditionally” of right-hand side (IIe, IVe, IXe and XIIe) According to the same newspapers, the victory of Bertrand Delanoë is also allotted to the margin with the mobilization of the Parisian homosexual community.

Standpoint

Bertrand Delanoë is favorable to the right to vote of the immigrants (in regular situation) with the local elections, the shortening of all the electoral mandates at five years, with prohibition to connect a third and even consecutive mandate, with the Homosexual marriage, the strict limitation of the office plurality of mandates (in favor of a mandate executive or parliamentary renewed only once) and with the euthanasia.

Militant of the Human rights, he was an active member, like member of Parliament, of the Ligue of the Human rights (LDH). He also devoted several interventions (speech, chapter of book…) to defend the right to drinking water in the world, and made so that the Eau company of Paris (SAGEP) finance of the concrete plans of access to water in poor countries.

Since decades, he wants to be very vigilant against the Antisémitisme, against all the Racisme S and the Sexisme, calling upon its childhood with Bizerte, in Tunisia, where Moslems, Jews and catholics lived rather in good agreement.

As of its election, prohibiting any office plurality of mandate and wanting to be “a full-time mayor”, he resigns of his mandate of senator de Paris. He chooses into 2001 not to name any mayor of district of left among his 33 assistant, preferring to them the elected officials resulting from the majority of the districts, including districts where the line remained majority (thus Anne Hidalgo is elected First Associated, Jean-Yves Mano becomes assistant in charge of Housing, Lyne Cohen-Solal deals with the Trade of the Craft industry of the Trades of Art & Liberal professions and the young media feminist Clémentine Autain - connected PCF- with Youth).

Bertrand Delanoë revealed his Homosexualité during an interview televised in November 1998 on M6, well before the municipal elections of 2001. He does not hold an active share in the homosexual community but openly supports number of the actions and claims of the Gays for the equal rights and the respect. He increased the municipal subsidies with associations gay S & Lesbienne S like Act-Up, the Gay Center & Lesbien (CGL), S.O.S Homophobie, the Film festival Gays & Lesbiens or increased in a notable way those with the organizations of fight against the AIDS (Aides, Sida Information Service), Paris being since the beginning of the Années 1980 the city most touched by the epidemic in Europe.

In 2004, it comes to a conclusion like the majority of the Socialist party in favor of “yes” to the Référendum about the Traité establishing a Constitution for Europe. At the evening of the May 29th 2005, whereas the remainder of France rejects the constitutional treaty, “yes” obtains a score of 65% in Paris (majority also in several other big cities), carrying it in the 20 districts which account the capital. Those of the center and the west, with the populations of middle-classes and easy, voted very massively in this direction (with records with nearly 80% in some of them); those of the center (60-70%) whereas those more in the east and the North-East (the least favoured) gave Yes to 55%.

In June 2006, like other general advices of all edges and with the support of the Association of the Departments of France (ADF), it claims in the State refunding “with the euro close” of 52 million euros due for 2005 under RMI, henceforth managed and poured by the general advices, the new laws of decentralization introduced into the Constitution providing that the State refunds these sums with the communities.

In October 2007, it invites the Socialists to ratify the modifying treaty or " mini treaty européen" who succeeds the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe and who was approved by the European Council of Lisbon of October 19th, 2007, in order to advance Europe.

The September 4th 2007, Bertrand Delanoé announces his candidature for a second mandate for the Mairie of Paris in a Interview for the newspaper Parisian the.

Achievements of the municipal mandate (2001-2008)

The headlights projects of the mandate

Reduction of the motor vehicle traffic and the Pollution

Construction of a Tram on the boulevards of the Marshals (XIIIe, XIVe, XVe district) integrated as a T3 into the network, doubling the capacity of the section of bus PC. Inaugurated the December 16th 2006.
Increase in the number of cycle tracks, corridors protected (“in exclusive right of way”, according to the legal term) for the Drunk , Bicycle S, Taxi S and vehicles emergency (firemen, police force, ambulances, Samu, etc).
temporary Prohibition of circulation on certain portions of the bank roads (several Sundays of the year and a month during the summer at the time of Paris-beach), removal of several red axes, pietonisation of certain districts.
Parking: new residential tariffs (to 0,5 euro per day) were founded in 2001 to encourage the residents with less moving in the car. Since 2006, more than 12.000 underground parking spaces not used OPAC is proposed with the hiring with the residents, with preferential rates. In same time, many parking bays of surface were removed.
If the fall of the automobile Pollution in Paris is constant since 1998, because of progress of auto industry in particular, a study of the scientific organization AirParif (organization francilien charged to measure the quality of the air) on the impact of the transport policy on the quality of the air made state in December 2006 of a fall of 32% of air pollution in 5 years (period 2002-2007) in the capital, related at the same time on the technological improvement of the vehicles (containing hydrocarbon cleaner, less polluting engines) but also to the control of automobile flows (6%).

Social housing

It expresses the will to ensure equity and the transparency in the attribution of the social housing. It thus sets up composite commissions of elected officials and representatives of associations implied in housing charged to allot the residences available according to priority criteria.
Installation of new a Local plan of Town planning envisaging the installation of a minimum number of social housing (25%) in the new real estate schemes of more than 800 m ².

Repurchases by pre-emption of whole buildings in the districts of the Parisian west in order to try to decrease the geographical imbalance of social housing with the east of the capital.

Inscription in the budget of a financing of 4 000 social housing to build or arrange per annum in Paris. According to the assessment (disputed) of the town hall at the end of 2005, a total of 18 622 residences in 5 years would have been financed including/understanding the repair of old residences.
Transfer of buildings to the Public assistance - hospital of Paris (AP-HP) in XVIe district (22, rue Wilhem) in order to place its personnel (with load for the latter not to renew the Beams in their term, to break those unduly renewed by the former financial backer or to propose the repurchase of their apartment to the former tenants).
Opposition to the construction project of new the Court of Bankruptcy (regarded by Bertrand Delanoë as being with narrow on the Island of the City), to Tolbiac (13th), the town hall preferring Masséna (13th also), in order to preserve the number of future residences and the size of an green area of only one holding.
Unsanitary buildings: commitment of the mayor of Paris to make disappear all unsanitary buildings from the City from here end 2007, of which at least 1 000 catalogued buildings as slum (in 2005,136 in the process of rehabilitation and six were rehabilitated). During the summer 2005, after 2 buildings burned in Paris, causing the death of many people, her housing policy - in particular its fight against the unsanitary buildings - is called into question. Bertrand Delanoë retorted by showing the State that he judges responsible for the legal delays forced to take in hand the private unsanitary buildings, and whose he criticizes the lack of engagement on this question.

Early childhood

Installation of a crib to the center even of the town hall in the old private apartments (more 1 000 m ² with a privative garden) allocated free before 2001 with the mayor of Paris.
Commitment to create 4 500 new places of crib and halt-nursery in Paris (2 500 places were created at the end of four years, but some affirm that the manpower is not sufficient). The shortage of the places in crib is not compensated by the creation of many private halt-nurseries, whose costs are definitely higher than those of the public structures.
Creation of a municipal allowance of family assistance single-parent (unique in France), fragile and primarily made up mothers alone with children.
Suppression of the universal Allowance Paris Early childhood ( APPE ) for the households allocatees of PAJE. The APPE was a Allocation Universel it (without condition of resources) intended for the Ménage S having recourse to a Nourrice to residence, for lack of place in Crèche. It is replaced by the system PAPADO ( small Paris in residence ) whose objective is officially to make it possible more families with weak incomes to reach this mode of guard. However, the new allowance does not concern the children kept by one (E) assistant (E) maternal counsel. In addition, by subjecting this new allowance to conditions of resources, the city decreases its participation from 60% to 100% compared to the APPE, excluding the families called to average revenues or easy which constituted the greatest number of the allocatees of the APPE.
Increase in the assistances to housing (henceforth accessible as of the 2nd child and either 3rd) and creation of assistances to the payment of the invoices of electricity and gas, granted under conditions of incomes.

Festive culture and events

Introduction of the exemption from payment for the collections of about fifteen municipal museums (Petit Palais, museum of Modern art of the City, Museum Carnavalet, Asian museum Cernushi, etc).
Launching of the construction of 2 media libraries in Paris (Marguerite Yourcenar street of Alleray in 15th and Carries of Bagnolet in 20th).
New festive demonstrations like the installation of a giant beach on the edges of the Seine (Paris-Beach), or the Sleepless night dedicated to the contemporary art.
Plane annual of restoration of Churches belonging to the City.

Co-financing of work of the church Saint-Sulpice and the Tower Jacques Saint in partnership with the ministry for the culture for half each one (project of restoration deposited in 2000 by the architect as a chief of the historical buildings of France).

Creation in January 2002 of a Mission Cinema to preserve the Parisian cultural exception in this field and to start again a policy of support in favor of the cinema, within the framework of a dialog enters the Town of Paris and the State (Regional management of the cultural affairs of Ile-de-France and the National center of cinematography), around the independent rooms, of education to the cinema, the festive events, the forum of the images and turnings in Paris.

Within this framework, the refitting of the Forum of the Images (founded in the Sixties) and the installation of the library François Truffaut to the Forum of the Markets falls under the project of “street of the Cinema” which should form the new Forum unit of the Images, library and complex UGC Quoted Ciné.
Disengagement of the “Festival of film of Paris” (directed by Louisa Maurin via its company LM Festivals, this one had been congratulated for its work and its good management by Bertrand Delanoë in April 2001) and installation of a new festival of the cinema entitled “Paris Cinéma” after having failed to acquire the label “festival of film of Paris”.

Suppression of the municipal subsidy to the festival of dance of Paris.
Project of installation of the old Undertaking with 104 rue d'Aubervilliers (19th).
Installation of the theater of the Lyric Cheerfulness (3rd district), dedicated to numerical arts and electronic musics.
Repurchase in March 2001 of the House of the Metal-workers (11th) (old seat of CGT), to make of it a place dedicated to the live performance, directed by Gerard Package.
Creation of the “City of the Mode and the Design” in the old buildings of the General Stores (13th district), called " Docks in Seine" .
Co-financing of the “House of the hip-hop” in the 10th district.
Introduction as of 2001 of an envelope of 1 euro per annum by district and (proportional to the population of the district) for local cultural activities (exposures, festivals, projections…).

Other achievements and projects

Citizens of honor of Paris:

In 2002, in the name of a certain design of the fight against the Capital punishment and racial discrimination, the municipal majority of the Town of Paris makes citizen of honor Mumia Abu-Jamal, condemned to died in 1982 to the the United States for the murder of a police officer. The Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, hostage of the guerilla of extreme left of the FARC, was also made citizen of honor of Paris. Pablo Picasso and Marie Curie was until there the only ones to have received this distinction.

Wi-Fi :

In April 2006, Bertrand Delanoë confirmed since San Francisco his will to equip Paris with a network free Wi-Fi on more than 400 terminals left again out of 260 municipal sites (gardens, libraries, Maisons of associations, etc). The network Paris Wi-Fi was inaugurated in September 2007 and is in service since. It also signed with Gavin Newsom the convention known as of the “Numerical Cities Sisters” who includes/understands already San Francisco, Toronto, Singapore, Prague, Mexico City and Madras.

Internet network with very high banc:

In January 2006, Bertrand Delanoë also wished to very equip high banc Paris (up to 100 times faster than high speed network ADSL which then covers already 100% of the capital). He presents to the summer a plan to carry out this project: like key impulse, the city consequently lowers strongly the right-of-way in its sewerage system, which avoids trenching in all the streets, for example to deploy fiberoptic. Several operators, since 2006, announce that they begin the deployment of this network, with zones tests in several districts the same year.

International policy of the capital:

In May 2006, it proposes to the president Bolivia, Evo Morales, a close relation of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, to increase the assistance of the French capital to the country, in particular by an emergency aid intended to support the access to drinking water in the area of Cochabamba.

Bertrand Delanoë also works on the importance of the local government agencies on a worldwide scale. As mayor of Paris it chairs the International association of the French-speaking Mayors (AIMF), mainly active for the co-operation (subsidies, technical assistances on town planning, transport and drinking water, etc) and the exchanges with towns of Africa and Asia. In October 2007, he becomes president of the organization Cités and local governments plain (CGLU). This organization gives itself for object the international cooperation thanks to the local administrative level and to make recognize by UNO the role of the local government agencies.

Toponymy:

The names chosen by Bertrand Delanoë and the municipal majority for the inaugurations of rare news ways or places in Paris, as for several streets which were renamed, caused the specific dissatisfaction with the opposition. This one considers indeed that the mayor tries by all the means “of warping” the streets of Paris whereas many arteries pay already homage to personalities from the left. Thus, against the opinion of the UMP majority of VIIe district and the residents of the boulevard of the Turn-Maubourg, it makes rename by its majority with the Council of Paris the place Santiago of Chile in place Salvador Allende. Against the opinion of the municipal council of Ier district (UMP majority) and in spite of the abstention from Green elected officials, the municipal majority renames a portion of the historical quays of the Louvre and Tuileries in the name of François Mitterrand, whose patronym was already given to the site of the National library. The mayor then called upon “Great work” of Mitterrand (Pyramide of Louvre, Arche of Defense, etc) to justify his choice. Other places (places, streets, esplanade, gardens) were baptized name of varied personalities (resistant, feminist, artists, actresses, politicians socialist and communist, writers engaged on the left, activists, revolutionists, trade unionists etc…), sometimes giving place to a specific Polemic with the residents or the opposition. Among the new adopted names emblematic, one will retain those of Jean Pierre-Bloch (ex-street Alexis Carrel), Chevalier of Saint-George S (ex-street Richepanse), Marguerite Duras, Louise Michel (Wilette ex-Public garden with the foot of crowned heart), Coluche, Jean-Paul II, Maurice Audin, Marlène Dietrich, Habib Bourguiba, Olympe de Gouges, Pierre Mendès France (on part of the avenue of France), Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Henri Krasucki, Bernard Lazare, Theodore Herzl, Léopold Sédar Senghor (old Solferino footbridge), Marguerite Yourcenar, Spitz Gasté (type-setter author), Michel Debré, Joséphine Baker (a place and a floating swimming pool), Colette Besson and Simone de Beauvoir for the footbridge connecting since June 2006 the districts Bercy (XIIe) to Tolbiac (XIIIe).

Management of the town hall

municipal Employment:

Recruitment of 6 000 new agents carrying with 46 000 the number of civils servant of the town hall (and the department) divided into more than 120 trades and 22 administrative offices.

Taxes:

Since 1993, under the mandate of Jacques Chirac, the city obtains each year the best financial note of the agency Standard & Poors: AAA, which judges of capacity of the City to refund its Emprunt S.

Thus, if the recourse to the loan doubled the Dette per capita to finance 1 billion euros of expenditure (against 450 million previous years), Paris remained one of the least involved in debt cities France grace in particular to the richness of its economic fabric, and its important tax potential. In spite of a level of capital expenditures raised partly financed by the loan and modest rooms for maneuver on the expenditure of management, the not-increase in the local taxes during mandature could be carried out thanks to the exceptional re-entries garnered by the boom of the Immobilier. Indeed, the transfer tax reached, in 2006, 870 million euros (twice as much as at the beginning of mandature), that is to say 15% of the receipts of operation.

Nevertheless, in October 2006, Bertrand Delanoë evoked the possibility of increasing in a way “measured” the Local taxes on the assumption of a second mandate in order to finance the increase in the welfare expenditures (more than 70% since 2001) and the capital expenditures.

Reports of mandate:

Held in each District, these meetings during which the mayor presents the actions of the municipality also make it possible to the residents of the district to question the mayor on local problems, dependant on the various municipal public services or of State, with transport, returned etc Certains of these account are particularly chahutés in particular that which proceeded in October 2005, in the XIXe district where Bertrand Delanoë was vigorously taken with part by members of collectives of expelled inhabitants of their residences, supported by a score of militants resulting from the Extreme-left and anarchistic mobility. Obliged to shorten the meeting, Bertrand Delanoë declared then against dissatisfied “the If you are not content, leave ”. A meeting was again organized a few weeks later in this district.

Criticisms against Bertrand Delanoë

Internal criticisms by the municipal majority

In September 2005, a political crisis without precedent within the municipal majority bursts between the Socialists and the ecologists in connection with the social Housing and of the emergency solutions to mobilize against insalubrity. It is the adoption of five wishes and amendments of the PC and the Greens obtained by the support of the votes of the UMP which causes this crisis. Christophe Girard, initiator of the Sleepless night and assistant to the Culture, then leaves the Greens to join the PS judging that the “convergent votes with UMP” signed, for the Parisian Greens, the rupture of their “majority engagement”. The debate will be closed by the decision to increase the living number of residences reserved for the people of the unsanitary buildings, and by the reclassification of 500 residences of the city currently classified in intermediate housing.
It supports in July 2006 the decision of the national office of the PS to retain the candidature of George Pau-Langevin (lawyer and former president of MRAP) on the 21e district of Paris for the detriment of Sophia Chikirou, candidate of origin kabyle and close assistant of the deputy outgoing PS Michel Charzat.
Residences/green areas: In June 2006, the mayor tries to make vote the downgrading of part of a protected green area, in fact the Parc Holy-Périne in the 16th district. It was a question of building on approximately 6% of its surface (corresponding to the wooded part around the park in the enclosure of the Holy-Perrine hospital) a real whole of 210 residences declared “with social vocation” of which the half intended for the personnel of the AP-HP, administration executives with the nurses. This project caused the mobilization of the trade, the residents, the close schools, the council of district and that of district as well as League of protection of the birds. This real promotional operation was finally put in failure by the conjunction of a vote of UMP, UDF and Greens Parisian. This rejection caused sour comments of Alain Lhostis, assistant (PC) of Bertrand Delanoë, against the residents of the park (he spoke about the “egoistic satisfaction of some privileged residents”) and of the Greens (guilty of “poor wretches small politicking operations”). The June 23rd 2006, at the time of the Council of the AP-HP, it is as a temporary president of Mr Delanoë that Mr Lhostis presented and made adopt a new wish (a wish for oneself) in order to ask the Town hall of Paris to cancel the vote of June 12th and to make constructible this protected green area.

External criticisms

Several city council men of the opposition denounce the lack of dialog - even authoritative character - of the mayor of Paris. Some, like François Devoucoux of Buysson, the founder of the site Internet Satirique the Parrot Released also reproach Bertrand Delanoë for having privileged the “spangles” more than the basic reforms, referring to the festive demonstration Paris-beach. Lastly, a recurring criticism addressed by the municipal majority (in particular by Francoise de Panafieu, UMP candidate with next the elections of 2008) is to have deteriorated the circulation terms conveys some in the city (in particular due, according to these criticisms, with the widening of the corridors of bus), while not having cause a drop in the rate of Pollution significantly.
Its detractors also show Bertrand Delanoë to have accentuated the Social fracture of Paris by transforming it into a city of easy and helped, the important rise in the prices of the real estate having constrained many households of middle-class to leave Paris for its crown. If the last censuses INSEE showed that, for the first time for 40 years, the population of Paris has slightly increased (+ 20.000 inhabitants since 2000), some denounce the fact that the gap between social classes is, accentuated to him.
In 2005, an article of Current values point also of the finger the attribution of social housing to close relations of the Socialist party. Are mentioned Valerie Lang, the girl of Jack Lang; Franck Chaumont, in charge of the communication of association Neither subjected whores nor; the former principal dancer Patrick Dupond; and Stanislas Nordey, the son of the Scenario writer Jean-Pierre Mocky.
In a way much more dramatic, the mayor of Paris was stabbed the October 5th 2002, during the festivities of the first Sleepless night into full Town hall. Its attacker, Azedine Berkane, marginal with unemployment, would have affirmed with the police force that he hates “the politicians, the Socialist party” and also the homosexual ones. The medical community will declare mentally it irresponsible, and will make it intern in psychiatric hospital. Although the wound is serious, the mayor of Paris escapes from it and it can leave the hospital at the end of approximately two weeks and continue its convalescence during more than one month in south-west.
Since the origin of the demonstration Paris-Beach at the summer 2002, Bertrand Delanoë applies to it rules of procedure copied from that of the public gardens of the capital, which prohibits the use of weapons, the behaviors at the risks, the Monokini and the String.
In June 2006, following a proposal of the UMP, Bertrand Delanoë proposes to the Council of Paris to give to the square Notre-Dame the name of “Notre-Dame Square - Place Jean-Paul II”, in spite of the opposition of representatives of its own municipal majority (Gilles Allayrac, Sylvain Garel, Georges Sarre, Danièle Auffray), hostile so that a place of Paris bears the name of a pope, however important. During the inauguration of this place, the September 3rd 2006, Delanoë is made take with party and to insult by militants of Act-Up to the cries of “Delanoë protects the Homophobie, Delanoë protects the the Vatican”.

The candidature of Paris for the Olympic Games

Paris had already known 2 failures for unhappy candidatures for the OJ (under mandatures of Jacques Chirac for the OJ of 1992, then under Jean Tiberi for the OJ of 2008), and knew its 3rd failure in 2005 with Bertrand Delanoe. Still candidate with the Olympic Games of 2012, the town of Paris is beaten finally by the town of London the July 6th 2005, after having beaten Madrid, New York and Moscow with the preceding turns of vote. Bertrand Delanoë, who had not spared his sorrows on this project of candidature, shows publicly Tony Blair and the direction of the committee of candidature of London not to have respected three of the rules enacted by the international Olympic committee (CIO), and this last “to have crossed the yellow line”. The newspaper Le Monde , in April 2006, will evoke the role of influence of the former president of the CIO Juan Antonio Samaranch (which would have folded back votes of Eastern European country) and a coalition “anti-Chirac” on behalf of the Prime Ministers British (Tony Blair) and Italian (Silvio Berlusconi).

List functions and mandates

Political offices

member of the management committee of the PS (1979 - 1983);
acting general with coordination at Lionel Jospin, then general secretary of the PS (1979 - 1984);
member of the national council of the PS (since October 1993);
member of the national office of the PS (since 1997)

National mandates

appointed (PS) of Paris (1981 with 1986)
senator (PS) of Paris (1995 - 2001)

Mandate Buildings

to advise of Paris since 1977
president of the socialist group to the Council of Paris, 1993 with 2001
Mayor of Paris since March 2001

Others

President of the International association of the French-speaking mayors (AIMF) since 2001;
President of the worldwide organization of the " cities; Cities and Unis" Local governments; (CGLU) since October 31st 2007

Distinctions

Doctor Honoris causa of the University of Quebec to Montreal (Canada) in April 2006

Works

For the honor of Paris ED. Calmann-Levy, 1999;
Life, passionately (political Autobiography and positions on democratic operation, peace, the prisons, the access to drinking water in the world, the religions…), ED. Robert Laffont, September 2004; edition of pocket at Pocket (2005).
リベルテに生きるパリ市長ドラノエ自叙伝, the Japanese Translation of Life, passionately, on June 12th, 2007 ポット出版

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