The Minister of Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu, is due to discuss, Tuesday, February 14, with the local elected officials of the transfer of skills in the housing sector. A first step while the executive reflects on a new act of decentralization and does not rule out the end of certain major regions created in 2015.
by Benoît Floc’h
The pension reform is not yet adopted that the executive opens a new project. Tuesday, February 14, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion will receive the main associations of local elected officials to launch discussions on the decentralization of housing. “We have no preconceived ideas,” explains Christophe Béchu. We reach out to local authorities: how do they want us to share the skills? “Housing is the first file. But others will follow, with other ministers: “aging well”, early childhood, work …
This is only part of the reform of the institutions on which the President of the Republic consults. After having received his two predecessors, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron will receive, Monday and Tuesday at the Elysée, the presidents of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, then of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
The Head of State intends to revive popular sovereignty. Citizens no longer understand who decides what in the communities’ maquis, he observes, and this nourishes abstention, is it convinced. He therefore wishes to clarify responsibilities and strengthen the action capacity of elected officials. In October 2022, Mr. Macron promised to inaugurate “a chapter of real decentralization”. The method: “look where the decision is made in a most effective way.” The objective: “competence goes with responsibility, with the ability to finance, to make normative decisions and, therefore, also accept that he also There is a real differentiation in terms of territory. “
The return of the territorial advisor
A transpartisan commission was promised by the President of the Republic. After the disappointments of the first five-year term, where a possible constitutional revision has been constantly postponed, and today without absolute majority at the Palais-Bourbon, Emmanuel Macron seeks the widest consensus path.
In the meantime, from the Senate to the Renaissance presidential party, the working groups pushed like mushrooms after a downpour in September 2022. “A cowboys competition, it shoots in all directions”, we joke among macronists. “We must be ready to wear ambitious texts,” says Gironde Thomas Cazenave’s deputy (Renaissance), President of the Delegation to Territorial Collectivities of the National Assembly, recalling: “On this subject, we are not dependent on ‘A constitutional reform. ”
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