A municipal councilor is a shadow worker but a necessity for democracy. Whether you are elected from a big city, a small village, the majority or the opposition.
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By Stéphane Vande VeldePublished on 10/10/2024 at 6:15 p.m.
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Pfor them, it is often a priesthood. Some people sometimes dream of being mayor or alderman and wake up as an advisor. But, for the majority, it is only a desire to improve the daily life of their municipality, to develop projects for the common good. To carry the voice of those who do not have one. Municipal councilor is often a shadow job, known to the few who attend or watch the municipal council. The job depends on the person who does it: there are those who dreamed of something else or who combine with another elected status and who do it a bit like a dilettante, there are those who invest themselves in it body and soul , those who are part of the majority and know that it is not the council that their voice carries, conversely there are those who are part of the opposition and who see the council as an arena in which they must point out the flaws of the executive.
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