More than 600 mayors, including Edouard Philippe, on Saturday launched an appeal to support the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of the Republic, welcoming "
a five-year term favorable to territories and municipalities
", in a column published in the Journal du Sunday.
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To meet the immense challenges which are those of the Nation - reindustrialisation, further opening up of our municipalities, construction of housing, preservation of our landscapes and success of the ecological transition - we need continuity and stability
", write the authors. 611 signatories, among whom, in addition to the former Prime Minister now mayor of Le Havre, Christian Estrosi (Nice), Hubert Falco (Toulon), Christophe Béchu (Angers), Caroline Cayeux (Beauvais), or Olivier Klein (Clichy-sous-Bois) , Seine-Saint-Denis).
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This call is the first concrete act of the pre-campaign of candidate Emmanuel Macron, at the end of this week in the regions
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For us, local elected officials from France, Corsica and the Overseas Territories, coming from all political stripes and often having no label, the account is there
", continue the authors of support for the President of the Republic which, according to them, “
does not pursue any partisan interest
” but “
is of general interest
”.
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We simply want to continue the relationship of trust that in five years, we have been able to forge with the State
", add these elected officials, including David Valence (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges), Alain Chrétien (Vesoul), Karl Olive (Poissy), Jean-Charles Orsucci (Bonifacio), Sonia Lagarde (Nouméa) or Sandra Trochimara (Cayenne).
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This call is the first concrete act of the pre-campaign of the candidate Emmanuel Macron, at the end of this week in the regions
", commented to AFP a tenor of the majority, while many local elected officials are organized in recent weeks in support committees, at the initiative of the Minister of Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu, and Thierry Solère, a close friend of the President of the Republic.
The operation comes some two days after the closure of the congress of the association of mayors of France, during which the head of state defended his record with pugnacity, receiving a more positive reception than in the past despite the indictment of the leaders. from the Association.
More than 300 local elected officials had already expressed their support for Emmanuel Macron in a forum in July.
