The subsidies granted by Laurent Wauquiez and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region are definitely in the news this week. As of Monday evening, the elected LR had announced that the authorization to wear the burkini in municipal swimming pools would cost Eric Piolle and the city of Grenoble any subsidy from the region on the grounds of “break with secularism” according to him.
This Wednesday, the EELV mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet has just posted a video on his Twitter account to complain about the “brutal and unprecedented financial disengagement” of the AURA region from the city’s cultural institutions. Grégory Doucet cites several examples, such as the Villa Gillet, which is about to lose a third of its resources or the National Orchestra of Lyon and the Biennials, which would see their regional subsidies reduced by half. The Tony Garnier museum even risks closing because of this choice made by the management of the region.
“Not necessarily the role of the region to help certain structures so much”
Grégory Doucet points to “sacrifices without justification”. “Mr. Laurent Wauquiez, we ask you to reconsider this decision, launches the mayor ecologist three times during his video. You are jeopardizing cultural activities and jobs already weakened by the health crisis. »
On April 22, Sophie Rotkopf (LR), vice-president of the AURA region in charge of culture, confided in Progress on this controversial subject: “We helped a lot of certain structures, it was not necessarily the role of the region to help them so much. This will no longer be the case for several of them, who will have to suffer a new blow after the immense difficulties linked to Covid-19.