The head of state had to receive a thousand elected officials on Wednesday, before closing the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France, by a speech Thursday.
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As it has become accustomed since the first year of its mandate, in 2017, Emmanuel Macron had to receive at the Elysee, Wednesday, November 17, on the second day of the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF ), a thousand elected officials with which he will speak directly. If the leaders of the AMF have never appreciated this “invitation to the castle”, the mayors, they take this moment of exchange, which often extends late in the evening. The President of the Republic, meanwhile, does not soften his pleasure, who willingly lend themselves to hugs and selfies.
The next day, it is he who will move Porte de Versailles, at the Parc des Expositions, where he will intervene at the closing of the Congress, for the third and last time of his mandate – more than none of his predecessors. It will only have false leap at the 2018 edition, while the CVIV-19 crisis prevented the holding of 2020. But the history tied upon the five-year fifteen car is without any An idyll divine with the ediles. Mr. Macron has never been able to parapher this “trust contract” that he called his wishes to the Oroe to his presidency.
The original fault? The summer of 2017 will have been the trigger. He had started well, with the installation of the National Territorial Conference. It hurts itself when, in the meantime, have successively intervened the announcements of the cancellation of 300 million euros of appropriations for the communities, also called to carry out 13 billion euros of savings on their expenses of Operation, the removal of assisted jobs and the decline in personalized housing aids. And, above all, there is this abolition of the housing tax, promise of the candidate Macron but who remains across the throat of elected officials, seeing the quintessence of the recovery in hand by the state of their resources tax, the emblem of a willingness to “recantization” that they will continue, therefore, to denounce. In the fall of 2017, the President of the AMF, François Baroin, “solemnly alert on the risk of rupture”.
Open confrontation with the executive
When he arrived at the Congress Tribune, on November 23, 2017, the President of the Republic is welcomed by some whistles and hoots. “The whistles never told me a lot,” he reacts immediately, determined to make and defend his choices. “I need you,” he says several times. Without having convinced his audience, he completes his speech under the applause. But the decor is planted, the story of a “off-ground” state head, without relays or fasteners in the territories, is installed.
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