Robert Ménard

I might get someone to kill me later.

Mayor Robert Menard nevertheless issued a new order reinstating the measure.

So the mayor can just overrule the administrative court.

What's the point of the administrative court if not to keep mayors in check?

But the same report notes that elsewhere the state has simply stopped paying.

Mayor Robert Menard, embassier, has actually expanded the uniform to every primary school in the city, but made it optional and entirely funded by the municipality, since the national government withdrew its share.

In La Grande Motte, the town hall reported doubling its own contribution, an extra 40,000 euros, to cover the gap left by the government.

Three years ago, this was supposed to look very different.