The day after the closure of the 103rd Congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), where LR David Lisnard was consecrated new president, Valérie Pécresse sent a letter to all the city councilors in France.
In this letter, the president of the Île-de-France region addresses to those whom she considers to be "
the pillars of the Republic
" her proposals to "
strengthen
" the "
rights and freedoms of the communes
".
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According to the LR Congress candidate, the relationship between communities and the state has been "
damaged
" under the presidency Emmanuel Macron. She accuses the tenant of the Élysée Palace of having shown mistrust "in
front of local freedoms
" and of having "
considerably reduced their autonomy while transferring to them part of the responsibilities of the State
". And this the day after the speech in the appearance of settling of scores delivered Thursday by Emmanuel Macron in front of elected officials.
Welcoming the action of mayors during the Covid-19 crisis, the president of the Île-de-France region also praises “
proximity
”, “
common sense
” and the knowledge of city officials.
"
It is this bond of trust that I wish to implement if I am elected President of the Republic,
" she writes.
Better protect mayors and review their status
In this letter, Valérie Pécresse also condemns the increasingly violent attacks against mayors. She specifies that, if she is elected, she will put in place "
zero impunity
" against all those who attack these local elected officials. "
I hope that any
aggression against a mayor
is the subject of prosecution and an immediate appearance in the event of flagrante delicto and that the complaints can no longer be the subject of classification without follow-up,
" she explains.
In addition, the former Sarkozy Minister of the Budget also wants the legislation on conflicts of interest of city officials to be "
clarified and lightened
".
Its goal: that these elected officials "
can not be exposed to criminal sanctions only for conflicts of interest likely to compromise their impartiality, their independence or their objectivity
".
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The president of the Île-de-France region also wishes to initiate a reflection on the statute of mayors.
According to her, it is "
not fair
" that a mayor who stops all professional activity in order to devote himself to his mandate cannot "
keep for six months the benefit of his compensation in the event of defeat or end of mandate, the time to find a job as is the case today for the ministers in office
”.
Giving new skills to municipalities
The letter also specifies the new skills that Valérie Pécresse wishes to give to the municipalities. "
The State must let go
", she believes, specifying that she wants town planning and housing to be skills that "
fully
belong
to the communal block
". It also proposes a national statute for municipal police forces so that, thanks to new prerogatives (control of identities, access to certain files of the Ministry of the Interior, etc.), they can become "
a third force responsible for ensuring security. proximity
”.
Valérie Pécresse finally believes that the municipalities must have a say in the decisions that concern the hospitals in their territory by chairing "
real boards of directors
". "
The municipalities can no longer be considered as the auxiliaries of a State which demands more and more of them, incessantly weighs down the procedures and the bureaucracy, while depriving them of the financial means to act
", she writes.
In conclusion, the president of the Île-de-France region wishes to “re-
examine
” the accumulation of mandates, regretting the inconsistency of the total ban for mayors and their deputies from being able to exercise a parliamentary mandate, “all the
more so in the Senate, whose vocation is precisely to represent the territories
”.
