David Lisnard criticizes “a State which never reforms and does not apply the efforts it asks of others”

The president of the Association of Mayors of France asks in particular Prime Minister Michel Barnier, who will speak on Thursday at the closing of the congress of mayors of France, to pronounce “a moratorium on additional standards”.

David Lisnard, president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), which is organizing its 106th congress, asks the Prime Minister to pronounce, “immediately”, “a moratorium on additional standards”. The mayor of Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), guest of the show Ma France on France Bleu on Thursday November 21, is due to welcome Prime Minister Michel Barnier at the close of the congress.

David Lisnard awaits government proposals “both beneficial to the public accounts of the State” and who “do not be negative for the local public service because the measures announced so far are recessive measures”. According to him, standards harm the effectiveness of political action. “For two years, these additional standards have added 4.2 billion euros to our finances,” he denounces.

But the president of the AMF does not want the government “come and dig into [les] efforts [des collectivités] to feed the bottomless well of a State which never reforms and does not apply the efforts it demands of others”. He calculates that there is “438 state bodies”, “created since 20 years, who consume 82 billion euros of credits per year, which employ 400 000 people and produce constraint”. He deplores that “all these services have blocking power over files, none of these services has authorization capacity on its own.”

This is the reason why he finds that in France, “there is more public spending than elsewhere”. “There are more samples” more “there is less efficiency than elsewhere. It is the multiplication of structures which parasitizes activity”concludes the elected official.