Renewed tension between suburban mayors and executive

For the elected city and suburban association, the government’s policy balance sheet is insufficient.

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New weapon pass between the suburban mayors and the executive. At the heart of the discord, the government’s balance sheet in the city’s policy. As a backdrop, the Congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) which ended, Thursday, November 18, by a speech by the President of the Republic: “For the city, I heard you, and I subscribe Totally to Grigny’s call [launched by a hundred mayors in 2017 to protest the budget cuts and gel of assisted jobs] as at Jean-Louis Borloo’s work, he said. The numbers are there, I heard your speech, but he has three years of age! “

Pic is a replica to the resolution adopted unanimously by the AMF office and presented the day before: “These are certainly not great speeches, sometimes caricatural, which will bring out our suburbs of the State relegation in which they are plunged, had launched his vice-president, the socialist mayor of Issoudun (Indre), André Laignel. Again, the hopes that had been aroused were disappointed and the Borloo Report’s scrolling justifies the mobilization of Our colleagues of priority neighborhoods of the city’s policy. We are doing, in this regard, the call of Grigny and his National Solutions Council “.

At five months of the presidential election, the head of state does not appreciate reminding her – once again – one of the most disastrous episodes of his five-year: the Fiasco of the delivery of the Borloo Report. It was in 2018, but no one, among the elected officials, the associations and the actors of the field forgot the camouflet, lived as a trauma. “We can say that we will debate a new agenda of solutions. It has been taken, it is three years old. He started to be deployed,” the head of state defended, suggesting that He had endorsed the content of the Borloo report. And to grove the actions of his government: development of educational cities, arrow financing for neighborhoods as part of the recovery plan, new investments for urban renovation …

“It’s as if it tried each time to redo the Redoute” catalog “, comments Gilles Leprush, Communist Mayor of Allonnes (Sarthe) and a member of the AMF Office. Even impression during the television address of the President of the Republic on 9 November. “He has a very general and very statistical vision of the situation, repeating that all the indicators are green,” says Leprust. Except that this is not the case in our popular municipalities. The health crisis, we know, we know, has dug all the inequalities, and yet, to listen to it, and it is quite softening, everything is settled, including in the neighborhoods. We say that the site is far from being completed. “

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