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Presidential: François Baroin writes to the mayors of the right to support Valérie Pécresse

2021-12-30T12:45:57.851Z


In a letter sent on Wednesday, the mayor of Troyes supports the LR candidate. The former minister puts his powerful network of elected officials l


Former best hope of his political family, he refused to the end to be the right-wing presidential candidate, despite the insistence of Christian Jacob, the boss of the Republicans.

But François Baroin does not intend to remain silent in the coming campaign.

After having already received Valérie Pécresse at his home in Troyes (Aube), on December 16, he sent a letter of support for the LR candidate on Wednesday December 29 to all the mayors and LR parliamentarians who must in turn relay this support to elected officials from the right and the center that they know.

In short, the former president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) intends to use his vast network to help the one who was minister at the same time as him under Nicolas Sarkozy.

"I know she will listen to the mayors"

In this letter, François Baroin treats the action of Emmanuel Macron, whose "authoritarian and centralized practice" has broken, he says, "the thread of trust between the Head of State, the government and local elected officials. ".

“We must now give greater freedom to local elected officials and their teams, and promote greater ambition for decentralization.

The State, for its part, must refocus on its sole sovereign missions, which are essential to guarantee security and national cohesion, ”he insists.

"For having discussed it with Valérie Pécresse, I know that she will be listening to the mayors", writes the city councilor of Troyes who therefore gives her all his support.

“She has a passion for France and above all she loves the French.

She will deeply respect local elected officials, she is one of them, ”he continues, laudator.

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“Unlike a State which today demands more and more from the municipalities, incessantly weighs down procedures and bureaucracy, while withdrawing the financial means to act, it wishes to assert the role of the municipalities as free partners and endowed with the necessary resources. 'fully exercise their skills with greater financial and fiscal autonomy', adds the former president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), who passed the torch to the mayor (LR) of Cannes, David Lisnard, in November.

Source: leparis

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