Crossfire of criticisms against Angers Loire Métropole and Angers city for their policies and the financial standing of their territories

The AquaVita project

The difficulties foreseen in the economic field for the Angers region and the some of the public investments  in the same area stirred criticism both from political and economical responsibles, reported by local medias (1). The Angers mayor, Frédéric Béatse, as well as the president of Angers Loire Métropole, Jean-Claude Antonini, are targeted by these reproaches coming from a mayor and a businessman. The two Angers representatives are criticized for their policies but, also, for their personal caracteristics, Mr Antonini being qualified of "autocrat", Mr Beatse being, at the opposite, considered as a little bit "shy".

The Technicolor closure

Regarding the policies, the mayor of Murs-Erigné, Philippe Bodard, find regrettable the Angers reconquest of the Maine banks projects, titled "new banks" as well as the local television deploring, for that one, the lack of debate in Angers Loire Métropole . But more generally, the Murs-Erigné mayor points out a centralization of the powers favouring Angers at the expense of little cities. "When Angers has decided, it's useless to fight", says Mr Bodard. 

The New Banks project

In the economic field, a businessman recalls the same day the increasing impoverishment of Angers and the concentration in that city of many of the asylum seekers arrived in the Pays de la Loire region. According to that person, the project of a new penitenciary will never grow while the financial difficulties of the public university will get worse while the judicial city of the Pays de la loire will not come in Angers in spite the fact the city is the center of the region.

(1) Le Courrier de L'Ouest