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Deconfinement: on the front line, mayors are worried

2020-04-16T18:16:25.840Z


They point to the lack of coordination and clear instructions to follow.


Four times, the President of the Republic paid tribute to the mayors during his last speech. And for good reason: from the reopening of the schools to the distribution of masks, "the success of the deconfinement will rest very largely" on them, insists in Paris Match François Baroin, the mayor of Troyes and president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF ). "I hope that local elected officials are closely associated with its preparation and implementation," said the Prime Minister on Thursday, interviewed by associations representing the municipalities during a conference call.

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"We now have a framework and a method for addressing these difficulties" , welcomes Jean-Luc Moudenc, the mayor LR of Toulouse, president of France Urbaine. And there is no shortage of them… “It's chaotic,” says Olivier Bianchi, the PS mayor of Clermont-Ferrand. "This is the general mess. We have no instructions, we are missing a warchief, rattle Gaël Perdriau, the LR official of Saint-Etienne. "We have expertise

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Source: lefigaro

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