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National Refoundation Council: local elected officials will participate after guarantees from Macron

2022-09-05T20:41:39.648Z


Emmanuel Macron must ensure the launch Thursday in Marcoussis (Essonne) of the CNR, supposed to bring together all the public actors around a few major themes for long-term reflection.


The main associations of elected officials, who doubted that the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) was "

the appropriate format

" for dialogue with communities, will finally participate in its launch on Thursday September 8 after having obtained regular meetings with Emmanuel Macron, they told AFP.

We will go because we have obtained regular working meetings with the President of the Republic to discuss the specific problems that we encounter in the exercise of our powers

”, explained François Sauvadet, the president of the Assembly of departments. of France (AdF), after a meeting at the Élysée with Emmanuel Macron.

"

We have agreed that we have working meetings with the President of the Republic twice a year to ensure that the responses given to our fellow citizens are faster and more appropriate

," added Carole Delga, the President of Regions of France, who also took part in the meeting, as well as David Lisnard, President of the Association of Mayors of France.

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New era of dialogue

We share the urgency to act against inequalities and global warming

,” she added.

We must therefore have more power locally and the president shared this observation

,” she underlined.

Emmanuel Macron "

expressed to us his desire to have a new era of dialogue with local authorities

", assured Carole Delga.

We agreed to see each other at least twice a year, or even more

”, explained François Sauvadet, specifying that the next meeting would be “

linked to decentralization

”.

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After a first five-year term marked by tensions between the Élysée and the main associations of elected officials, all three in the hands of the opposition, these regular meetings with the Head of State make it possible to "

start a new cycle of discussion

" , welcomed the president of the AdF.

David Lisnard, Carole Delga and François Sauvadet went to the Élysée under the banner of “

Territories united

”, an organization that brings together their three associations.

For its part, the Association of Rural Mayors (AMRF), which did not participate in the meeting, also told AFP that it would participate in the launch of the CNR, with the presence of its vice-president Yvan Lubraneski.

Before the meeting, Emmanuel Macron's entourage had assured that "

the president would listen, dialogue and with an outstretched hand

" to discuss the issues of the CNR.

Emmanuel Macron must ensure the launch Thursday in Marcoussis (Essonne) of the CNR, supposed to bring together all the public actors around a few major themes for long-term reflection.

But the opposition parties and the President (LR) of the Senate Gérard Larcher refuse to participate, denouncing among other things a confusion of roles with Parliament.

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In a press release, the three associations of elected officials estimated on Friday that the framework of the CNR "

did not seem appropriate to them to discuss the issues falling within the competences of our communities

".

"

It is through a dedicated and direct dialogue between the representatives of the communities, the executive and the Parliament, that these questions which affect the daily life of the French and engage the future of the country must be addressed

", they had underlined.

Source: lefigaro

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