The Region Prefect considers that the Regional Council comes out of its skills by intervening in the field of security. His president holds him head.
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Valérie Pécresse did not need that. While his presidential campaign patina, the candidate the Republicans (LR) in the presidential election has just been recalled to order by the prefect of the region as President of Ile-de-France. In a letter dated 18 January and made public Wednesday, February 16, the Prefect Marc Guillaume disputes, on the legal basis, two of the most emblematic decisions of the Chair of the Regional Council and asks him to give it up. What it does not intention to do.
The two cases concern the security, a domain in which, by eluted right assumed, M me decided to involve the region in force. This is how it has voted a series of measures called “security shield”. These include granting subsidies to municipalities who want to install video surveillance systems, or equip their municipal firearms fonts, bulletproof vests, pedestrian cameras, vehicles, etc. In 2019, it also created regional safety brigades, after a series of fires and degradation in high schools. His agents intervene inside and at the edge of the institutions.
Politically, the message is clear: Valérie Pécresse protects the inhabitants of Ile-de-France, as she intends to do tomorrow, for all the French. Legally, the situation is more troubled. Security is not part of the skills of the Regional Council. This is the argument on which the prefect of Ile-de-France is based. “The Region’s mission is to contribute to economic, social and cultural development, he points out in his mail. Subsidies to municipal policies do not fall under any of these areas. The Regional Council is therefore incompetent to grant them. “Accordingly, Marc Guillaume asks Valérie Pécresse to cancel the three deliberations of 2017 and 2021 in question.
even logic for safety brigades. In September 2021, the Regional Chamber of Accounts had already disputed this initiative “without legal foundation” which, according to it, comes to “blur the readability and consistency of the devices offered to the heads of school led to managing situations of tension within High schools “. “I can only subscribe to this analysis,” writes the Prefect of Ile-de-France, by praying to M me to stop the financing of these brigades.
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“This is a considerable setback for Valérie Pécresse”, rejoices the communist Céline Malaisé. The Candidate for the Elysee “must stop instrumentalizing his position as Chair of Region to stage his national project,” supports the Elected France unsuitable. The person concerned does not hear it as well. Far from complying with the requests from the Regional Chamber of Accounts and the Prefect, former Secretary General of the Government of Edouard Philippe, Valérie Pécresse doubled the number of safety brigades, five to ten. “We have to bring tranquility into each school,” she reaffirmed Wednesday.
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