The letter was sent just a few minutes after the rejection of the motion of censure against the Prime Minister on Tuesday in the National Assembly. Ali Rabeh, the mayor of Trappes (Yvelines), does not hide his dismay in a letter sent to Michel Barnier. In focus: the 5 billion euros in savings requested from local authorities.
The elected representative of a “popular commune” as he recalls in his missive, expresses his true “fed up”. “Since 2020, I have led the city of Trappes with passion and dedication. However, the scale of the task and the impression of emptying the ocean with a teaspoon, in an ever more difficult social, financial and democratic context, sometimes generates a feeling of discouragement. »
Joined this Wednesday, the elected representative of the Génération.S party, founded by Benoît Hamon and classified on the left, develops his thoughts. “Beyond the speech, the problem is the message conveyed by the government. I find it crazy that we are pointing the finger at communities as being bad managers when we are the first to make daily efforts,” says the person concerned, who sees in the maneuver (of the Prime Minister) “institutional violence of the State”.
Ali Rabeh cites the capital work provided by municipalities to get through the Covid crisis, then during the urban violence following Nahel’s death, the missions of mayors who “continue to compensate for the desertion of the State” on the ground.
Close the night brigade of its municipal police?
“It’s been several years since Emmanuel Macron’s policies began to impoverish our society. We had to make savings at the hospital, today there is not an emergency service that is not saturated and whose functioning is lacking, adds the community advisor of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. This savings plan is a political choice. The president could start saving five billion if he decided, for example, to eliminate the universal national service, a device incidentally that the Court of Auditors has criticized. »
In Trappes, how much could this cost the city? “Difficult to appreciate”, according to the elected official. If we have to establish an equation with all 34,935 French municipalities, this would be equivalent to a little less than 150,000 euros (143,123 euros exactly) in savings for each of them. “Not everyone will be affected, only those with an operating budget of more than 40 million euros will be affected,” specifies Ali Rabeh. This is the case of Trappes.
“For us, it will be much more than 150,000 euros, but concretely, this sum represents 5 to 6 civil servant positions,” explains the elected official. This means that tomorrow I am closing the night brigade of the municipal police, the one that I created because the State is not doing its job by increasing the number of national police on the ground. Otherwise, I will stop municipal school support, the one I put in place because the State is not capable of putting a teacher in each class. »
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