“There is the feeling of experiencing a social crisis, a civic crisis”, worries the general secretary of the AMF

The Prime Minister “first listened to us because I think it was important to bring him the voice of local elected officials on the gloomy context in which they find themselves. There is also this feeling of great weariness, of concern too. He was important to be able to have this exchange with her”said Wednesday April 12 on franceinfo Murielle Fabre, mayor of Lampertheim, vice-president of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, secretary general of the AMF (Association of mayors of France).

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Murielle Fabre was received with the main associations of elected officials at Matignon by Elisabeth Borne on the eve of the 12th day of mobilization against the pension reform. The Prime Minister presented to elected officials her “territorial roadmap” and confirmed the extension of a tax system for rural municipalities, participants said.

On the pension reform, “the subject was not at the heart of this consultation meeting, the objective was to talk about the territorial agenda, future lines of work in connection with local elected officials“, specified Murielle Fabre, but “of course we have not set aside the social context in which we find ourselves today. (…) IThere is the feeling of experiencing a social crisis, a civic crisis, a democratic crisis, the elected officials who are the mayors, are local elected officials, emergency elected officials who act to manage crises and we cannot stay on the sidelines of that, but we also have difficulties which are those experienced by our fellow citizens”to know “the financial question” and for us “the question of local finances which is at the heart of the public policies that we must carry out”.