The Prime Minister spoke at the end of the 18ᵉ Annual Congress of France regions on Friday, while communities require more decentralization and more fluid relationships with the government.
Le Monde with AFP
It was a compulsory passage for the Prime Minister, appointed in May. Elisabeth Borne spoke for the first time before the representatives of the Régions de France association, Friday September 16 in Vichy (Allier), as part of their 18 annual congress. While the relations of the regions with the executive have not always been fluid for five years, it promised a “constant dialogue” to “build together” on employment and ecology.
“We do not necessarily agree on everything. But I am convinced that we have in common a desire to act” because “State and territories each hold a part of the success of our nation”, -He declared before the eighteen regional presidents, all here of the opposition ranks. “The collective is the condition of our success,” she added.
a point with the government every six months
committing to review the representatives of the regions by early 2023 and to make “a point” with them every six months, Elisabeth Borne assured them: “Our dialogue is just beginning. He must be rich, Constant and transparent. “A line that the head of the government had already advanced during its meeting with regions of France in July, held as part of the consultation cycle which it had launched after the legislative elections in Matignon.
Elisabeth Borne also defended her method on Friday, which is based on “consultation”, by associating all communities, on “a shared work program”, on “differentiation” to take into account ” Specificities of each territory “and on the” readability “of the means granted to the regions, to the service of” full employment “and the ecological transition, she underlined.
Before M me terminal, Carole Delga said he welcomed him “the outstretched hand” for a “new era of decentralization”. “Do not decide from above, reconstruct France from the territories” to “make our democracy breathe,” asked Laurent Wauquiez (Les Républicains), president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
worries about inflation
Faced with the outbreak of prices, which would have cost the regions a billion euros, according to M me delga, socialist president of the regions of France and the Occitanie region, M me terminal has also promised that the government “will continue to be present to support communities in difficulty, including regions”.
Speed last year by a drop of 50 million euros in their endowment, the regions notably asked for a “constructive partnership” this year in this area, while discussions are in full swing in Bercy around the budget of the State for the year 2023.
As for the railway, for which the regions claim “a complete plan of the economic model”, Elisabeth Borne said that “from November” the regional prefects would “launch the work to define a program with [the regions]”.