In Toulouse, the music festival plays small arms
The municipal opposition denounces the disengagement of the town hall in the celebration of June 21, which is no longer able, according to it, to provide neither material assistance, nor financial assistance, nor even access to electricity…
All for the music ? Even. The municipal opposition to Jean-Luc Moudenc has just launched a cry of alarm over the threats hanging over the traditional musical evening of June 21 in the Pink City. “We have just learned with amazement that the town hall of Toulouse does not support the music festival this year. An incomprehensible decision at the end of two years of pandemic, proven for the world of culture, but also for the whole of the population, deprived of places of celebrations and reunions”, protest the elected representatives of the Alternative for a Citizen Metropolis (AMC). While regretting in passing the economic consequences of a weakened sector. “While in recent months the associations have been preparing to organize an evening of concerts, the ax has fallen without prior warning, they warn. Toulouse town hall is no longer able to provide them with material or financial assistance. , nor even access to electricity. Information with serious consequences for associations, which falls three weeks before the deadline, when most have already programmed and incurred the costs for artists and technicians”.
“The price of fiscal austerity”
The elected members of the opposition take the opportunity to stigmatize, in passing, the whole cultural policy of the city. “We are paying the price for the budgetary austerity desired by the mayor, which has manifested itself in particular in staff reductions. Thus, for lack of municipal agents and budget, the municipality gives up helping the associations as it had the habit of doing so for years. It is a purely political choice of budgetary orientation which sacrifices our public services, but above all the popular and associative culture. The municipal majority finds itself with its back to the wall, forced to undergo the consequences of its budgetary choices, without having anticipated them! A scandalous situation and unworthy of the 4th city of France”. Close the ban!