The country's paralysis and the constraints imposed by the health crisis weaken rural areas a little more. In these 10,000 municipalities of less than 3,500 inhabitants, solidarity was put in place immediately, but the confinement, isolation and remoteness of services greatly increased their difficulties, which were already great. Many rural mayors, who had given voice during the crisis of "yellow vests" to alert the power in the face of a feeling of abandonment, are suffering the full force of the consequences of the coronavirus.
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In the Vosges, the 350 inhabitants of Les Voivres do not know if their café-restaurant will bear the shock. The management business is one of the village's properties, but the manager warned the mayor this week. " He called me to tell me that I can sit on the March rent like the next ones. It is almost safe to put the key under the door, "laments Michel Fournier. The elected representative of 70 years does not ignore the measures planned for traders,
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