Of course I'm right about the mayor of Paris! His politics is pure despise for the suburbs, but as such despise towards the suburbs is shared by all Parisians, this will never hit the media.
Check his transports policy, it consists in limiting the road facilities in order to increase commuting times!! Is it good for the environment? No because cars spend more time in the traffic jam with the engine on. Is it good for the quality of life? No because these more numerous traffic jams make cars even more dominant all over the city, especially when the Seine docks freeway is closed and all the traffic is exported at street level. The only reason why such a policy is popular is because it annoys the suburbans, who represent the majority of car traffic in the city proper!
You see, the problem of the division of the Paris urban area in various small municipalities is that 90% of people don't sleep in the same municipality than the one where they work. This generates what Jean Viard has called "the sleep democracy" (démocratie du sommeil): as electors vote where they sleep, the city hall candidates focus their campaign on residential comfort instead of business activities and economical development. As people working in the city proper of Paris have absolutely no power on its mayor as long as they don't live in it, local authorities tend to totally discard their opinion and don't care at all about their interests.
Paris is the largest urban area in the EU, with no less than 10 million inhabitants, and despite this, the city proper of Paris is three times smaller in land area than Riga in Latvia! The obvious truth is that the city proper of Paris is actually nothing else than the city center of Paris, exactly the same way as Manhattan is only the city center of NYC.
The situation is so silly that when there are huge infrastructures and urbanism redevelopment to make in the Paris suburbs, people don't wonder "what are doing local authorities ?", they wonder "what is doing the government?".
Hence, instead of focusing in urbanism, the mayor of Paris create the "sleepless night" celebration, "Paris beach", and "Velib", the opportunity to rent a bike for leisure. It's all about fun, entertainment and leisure dedicated to residents.
Come on, LAnkou, don't you realize how obscene is the contrast between the political debates in Paris and the situation in the suburbs?