The Mayor of Beziers

[nomoss]

Norman, can't you get him under control?

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[NormanH]

There are  a couple of things to know to know  about him which hold the key to his attitudes in my opinion.

1) He is a 'pied noir' born in Oran in 'French' Algeria, and has a huge chip on his shoulder about that period. This area has a very large number of these people, and they form a good part of his electoral base as well as the same population living elsewhere who give him a lot of online support.

2) His wife, who is now our Député for Béziers, is a very Fundamentalist Catholic, close to Opus dei and it is she who has pushed him into the religious postures he has taken (putting a creche in the town hall against the laicity law, organising a Mass in the bullfighting Arena at the beginning of the Féria, spending a great deal of money on gilding a statue of Mary in a town where there is a great deal of poverty)

I imagine that it is a classic case of a man who is powerful at work dominated by a woman in private:)))

[Judith-aka-Judith]

That makes a lot of sense, I didn’t know much about his private life, just that he seemed to be very ready to go against the common grain or mould. It makes much more sense now.

[Judith-aka-Judith]

Duplicate post.