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Guillaume Tabard: "Cities, the challenge of proximity and efficiency"

11/21/2022, 7:25:46 PM


COUNTERPOINT - Sometimes whistled, sometimes absent, often lecturing, always suffering recriminations, the Head of State knows that the annual congress of the Association of Mayors of France is a test.

Between preventions, misunderstandings and prejudices, relations have always been complicated between Emmanuel Macron and the mayors.

Sometimes whistled, sometimes absent, often lecturing, always subject to recriminations, the Head of State knows that the annual congress of the Association of Mayors of France is a test.

This year, however, the climate seems calmer than it was during the first five-year term.

In our columns, the boss of the AMF, the LR mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, with a more militant profile than his predecessor, François Baroin, salutes the

"culture of discussion"

of Élisabeth Borne and

"congratulates"

Macron for its more comprehensive approach to decentralization.

The presidential campaign is behind us and the successive crises have forced the various public actors to understand each other better.

A sign of this change of climate: whether it is the Prime Minister and not the President of the Republic who delivers the traditional closing speech is not…

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