A hundred elected officials from Orne at the congress of mayors of France to remind us that they must be respected

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There are around a hundred elected officials from Orne, since this Tuesday November 19, 2024has Paris to participate at the congress of the association of mayors of France. An important delegation to reaffirm “all the usefulness of the municipality, of the action of local elected officials, locally, and the sincerity of their commitment, on a daily basis”.

This gathering is “a moment of truth”

Several thousand elected officials will participate this week in the congress of mayors of France in a completely new political and social context.

This 2024 national gathering is a moment of truth, about everything we take on, day after day, and about the ever more difficult conditions in which we work.

“Have the means to act”

In other words: “We are here to remind the highest authorities that mayors must be respected, that they need to have the means to act and to be definitively rid of a useless bureaucracy, increasingly burdensome and costly, and which continues to progress despite the commitments made, from one government to another! »

First reduce state spending

The 2025 budget is at the heart of the debates:

It is profoundly unfair to place the responsibility on our local communities for the abuses, which our Country must put an end to, with the courage that has been so lacking in recent years. The recovery of public accounts requires, first of all, an effective reduction in central government spending!

Fear of drastic budget cuts

And to insist: “If all our municipalities are not impacted at the same level, they will suffer in the more or less short term the drastic budget cuts that the State wants to impose on the Region and the Department, which are valuable partners and whose support will inevitably be reduced. »

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