If the announcement has not yet been made in your municipality, it should be imminent.
The day after Jean Castex's speech, a large majority of mayors of Seine-et-Marne should take note of the decision to cancel their vows ceremony.
"I appeal to everyone's responsibility to find other modalities than large gatherings and to avoid moments of conviviality", declared the Prime Minister.
Mayor of Nanteuil-lès-Meaux (SE), Régis Sarazin did not wait for the recommendations of the head of government to cancel his wishes, scheduled for January 7: "We took the decision Thursday because we saw the arrival of important figures pandemic for ten days.
How to organize such an event with what it involves as contacts?
I think we have to set a good example and be the driving force in all of this.
We cannot ask people to be careful and besides that, maintain this type of ceremony.
They had to be without buffet anyway: do we invite people so that they can just hear you give a speech?
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Alternatives for the first half of 2022
Like Régis Sarazin, many city councilors of the department have also given up on organizing this ceremony of vows and some have even communicated it to their citizens. "The tendency is very clearly to give up and the only ones who hesitated are those who had organized their ceremony at the end of January," indicates Guy Geoffroy, president of the Association of Mayors of Seine-et-Marne (AMF 77). Announcements have already been made on municipal sites and Facebook pages or even in print publications and others have also made it known via paper or electronic greeting cards. "
This is the case in Melun where the mayor, Louis Vogel (Agir), who also evokes obligations of consistency and exemplarity, also decided last week to cancel the ceremony of wishes to the population scheduled for January 7, 2022. at L'Escale. In Montereau-Fault-Yonne, evoking a "wise decision", the services of the mayor, James Chéron (UDI), explain that "with regret but in responsibility, the town hall decided not to organize the ceremony of wishes to the population in its usual format ”. And to announce that "the municipality is already working on alternative formulas allowing to live nevertheless this privileged time of the beginning of the year in another form of sharing, with discoveries, thanks and announcements".
Mayor of Mitry-Mory, Charlotte Blandiot-Faride (PCF), took the “responsible” decision last Wednesday to cancel the various meetings scheduled “at the beginning of January 2022 at L'Atalante and in the neighborhood centers”, “ moments of fraternal gatherings that do a lot of good ”. And to promise "to each Mitryen household a letter which will be faithful to the traditional speech of the vows". And to conclude: “I sincerely hope that very soon, we will again be able to organize convivial events and to meet again, to exchange, to benefit from being together, in short to live as we like it. "
On the side of the town hall of Bussy-Saint-Georges, the director of cabinet Cédric Tartaud-Gineste indicates that it was decided to cancel the vows: "We had planned to organize two ceremonies in town hall, one for the staff and the other for institutions.
Faced with the situation, we gave up both.
There will probably be a convivial moment for the staff in the spring.
But we do not organize greetings to the population ”.
Many municipalities and communities give up organizing vows, such as Lognes, Lagny-sur-Marne, Emerainville, Provins or even the departmental council.
"A short film in January to address my fellow citizens"
The mayor of Combs-la-Ville (LR) does not hide his disappointment vis-à-vis an option that was not on the table a few months ago: “No one thought about it until the end. November and the onset of this fifth wave risk. In September, we were even more on the idea of an exit from the health crisis. It is a pity that there have still been no wishes since the last municipal elections while conviviality is one of the elements of the democratic meeting in France. "
Despite this second consecutive cancellation, the representative of the mayors of Seine-et-Marne is now discussing short and medium-term alternatives: “Like others, I planned at the beginning of January to publish a small film on the site and the page Facebook of the town to address my fellow citizens, wish them a Happy New Year and discuss the prospects for the year to come, as is traditionally done orally.
All the elected officials who have renounced face-to-face vows are also considering organizing a ceremony during the first semester of 2022 to fill this moment that we have been missing since the start of the health crisis and rediscover the link that we encounter during the vows. .
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