The new representative of the mayors of France claims, in an interview at the “JDD”, its independence, and asks the State to assume its responsibility for public health while the municipalities are in the front line in the pandemic .
Le Monde
Designated President of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), Wednesday, November 17, David unveils, in an interview at the Journal du Sunday of 21 November , several ways on its projects as representative of the 35,000 communes of France.
The Mayor The Republicans (LR) of Cannes wishes globally to facilitate the work of the ediles who have to deal with “too many Kafkayan texts”, like the climate law, according to him. “I would like to see institutionalized work upstream with mayors on law and regulatory texts that concern communities,” he says. Whoever denounces “bureaucratic madness” wants to reduce the number of “unnecessary standards” that weighs on communities. “It is possible. Other countries have done so. The excess standards, sometimes contradictory, collectively costs us 60 billion euros per year,” he says.
François Baroin ‘s successor also took stock of the cost generated by the health crisis for the communes, which they estimate between 5 and 6 billion euros, and asks the State to assume this burden. “The mayors do not quemand,” he says. They do not ask the state to “help” but to assume his responsibility for the proprietary competence in the field of public health. During the health crisis, we We have been proactive and struggled against the epidemic in a way that proved indispensable. “
a” loyal “partner but” free “
arising in the guarantor of the “independence” of the AMF, which has sometimes erected on the beginning since the beginning of the Quinquennium of Emmanuel Macron, Mr. Lisnard noted, before his election, “a mobilization of The disturbing state apparatus “against the list it defended. It recalls that “the role of the AMF is to defend the municipality and to be a loyal partner of the central power. And to be loyal, you have to be free,” he justifies.
Concerning the abolition of the housing tax, Mr. Lisnard judges that “each territorial community must be able to have a tax, or specific, on a chosen part of a national tax, which will incur the responsibility of its elected before citizens “. While respecting a drop in sampling, he believes that “the relevant tax for the communes is a residential tax”.