At four months of the presidential election, the president performs Tuesday at Vierzon the first stage of a two-day trip devoted to “everyday problems”, particularly in small and medium cities in rural departments.
Le Monde with AFP
major international issues in the Gulf to local issues in France. After three days of travel in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Emmanuel Macron arrived Tuesday 7 December in Vierzon (Cher), the first stage of a two-day trip devoted to “everyday problems”, including small and medium cities in rural departments.
Welcomed by local officials, the President of the Republic started up the main street of the center of this town of 25 000 inhabitants and talk with residents and traders who were calling on various issues, such as the maintenance of public services, local hospital in difficulties or lack of specialized doctors. When a journalist asked him if he was campaigning to four months of the presidential election, Mr Macron said: “I travel for four and a half years, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.”
He also had to discuss with elected operation “City Heart” revitalization of city centers. At Vierzon, “there is always the curtains closed,” but “we have regained some thirty shops in the heart of city in three to four years,” insisted the communist mayor, Nicolas Sansu, on France Inter, welcoming the plan .
Visit to Vichy Wednesday
Mr. Macron will then travel to Bourges, where he will meet ancillary social life and visit a textile workshop reintegration. In the evening, he will attend the City Council last year in Châteaumeillant, a small town of just over 2000 inhabitants in the south of Berry, before dining with elected officials of this town that enjoys the program “Small cities of tomorrow “.
On Wednesday, the president will chair the Council of Ministers videoconference from Moulins. Then, in Vichy, it will report “on the various projects being deployed in the city supported by the State: revitalizing the city center, Hydrotherapy development, registration in the Unesco Heritage” … He then exchange with fifty associations of the city, to “welcome the strong commitment” volunteers, “while 2021 marks the 120th anniversary of the law on freedom of association,” the presidency.
Since the beginning of June, and three years after the crisis “yellow jackets” Mr Macron inaugurated a new type of movement: “A dive” in territory – often for several days – to identify the “everyday problems” that arise there, in consultation with the elected representatives. After his three-day visit in Marseille in early September, when it announced a broad plan of 1.5 billion euros to renovate schools and increase the supply of transport, the head of state also carried a shift in the Nord and Aisne on 19 November, focused on the fight against the medical deserts.