Following the removal of Mayor Éric Azémar in Bagnères-de-Luchon (Haute-Garonne) a dozen elected officials, including some from his majority, are hoping to get the town’s casino, shut since 2011, reopened again.
As reported by Journal des Casinos, the officials have highlighted ‘an unbalanced contract and an opaque procedure.’ The town council is preparing to create a working group to re-examine the file with the 10 elected officials who voted against the award of the concession to the Golden Palace group calling for ‘solid guarantees and a real relaunch of negotiations.’
“The majority of municipal officials considered that, following the negotiations led by the mayor, Éric Azémar, by excluding the public service delegation commission (DSP) elected by the Municipal Council, the successful candidate was not sufficiently involved in the renovation work of the delegated building, compared to other similar projects and that the level of fees was also insufficient.”
