Edouard Philippe (Le Havre), Christian Estrosi (Nice) or Christophe Béchu (Angers) welcome a “favorable territorial and municipalities” assessment and highlight a “need for continuity and stability”.
Le Monde with AFP
More than 600 mayors, of which Edouard Philippe, launched, on Sunday, November 21, an appeal to support the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the Presidency of the Republic, by greeting “a fifty favorable to the territories and municipalities”, in A forum published in the Sunday log (JDD)
“To meet the immense challenges that are those of the nation – reindustrialization, continuation of the opening up of our municipalities, construction of housing, preservation of our landscapes and success of the ecological transition – we need continuity and stability” , write the 611 signatories, including Christian Estrosi (Nice), Hubert Falco (Toulon), Christophe Béchu (Angers), Caroline Cayeux (Beauvais) or Olivier Klein (Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine-Saint-Denis).
“For us, elected local elected representatives of the hexagon, Corsica and overseas, from all the political edges and often having no label, the account is”, continue the authors of support to the President of the Republic, which, according to them, “does not pursue any partisan interest” but “is of general interest”. “We simply want to continue the relationship of trust in five years we have been able to weave with the state,” add these elected representatives, including David Valencia (Saint-Die-des-Vosges), Alain Chrétien (Vesoul), Karl Olive (Poissy), Jean-Charles Orsucci (Bonifacio), Sonia Lagarde (Noumea) or Sandra Trochimara (Cayenne).
“This call is the first concrete act of the Emmanuel Macron candidate, at the end of this week in the regions”, commented on a tenor of the majority, while many local elected officials have organized in recent weeks In support committees, at the initiative of the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, and Thierry Sole, a close to Mr. Macron.
The operation takes a few days after the closing of the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France, where the Head of State defended his assessment with pugnacity, receiving a more positive welcome than in the past despite the indictment leaders of the association. More than 300 territorial elected officials had already expressed their support for Emmanuel Macron in a tribune in July.