IIt's not just the farmers who are angry, local elected officials also have heavy hearts. Five thousand of them posed last night for an impressive joint photo, wearing a black scarf over their tricolor scarf to protest against the five billion euro cut planned in the next finance bill.
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The president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) and LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard warned that the next Yellow Vests could well be the mayors and that “the death of the municipalities would also be the end of the State and the end of the nation.” A threat that resonates all the louder as 2,400 mayors have already resigned since 2020, a sign of deep unease. The Prime Minister, Michel Barnier, expected at the AMF show on Friday, has no interest in coming empty-handed.
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If he wants to deflate this new political discontent a year and a half before the municipal elections, he will have to launch the cuddle therapy machine. The first proof of love towards mayors was sent by Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Partnership with the Territories, who declared: “Local elected officials are not responsible for the country's budgetary situation. » This sentence, seemingly cryptic, is intended to appease grumpy elected officials, by presenting them as victims and not as culprits of the country's catastrophic budgetary situation. We can assume that Catherine Vautrin, former president of Grand Reims, knows the partition perfectly: she herself would undoubtedly have protested against these measures a few months ago.
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We already know the concessions that could be made to angry elected officials. Starting with big budgetary concessions. Elected officials should indeed obtain a large rebate on the amount of effort requested thanks to the complicity of the compassionate Senate. Gérard Larcher, the president of the High Assembly, has already announced that he would not vote for more than 2 billion savings, or less than half of the sum initially requested. Michel Barnier also takes care of the symbols. He invited fifteen young mayors to a breakfast in Matignon and keeps up his sleeve announcements on the status of elected officials, as well as a “pluralist reflection” on the accumulation of mandates, or even promises of increased autonomy… gestures that cost nothing and are pleasant. The Prime Minister, himself a former president of the Savoie departmental council, knows the psychology of local elected officials by heart.
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