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On Wednesday November 17, the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) is faced with a strategic choice: to elect its new president at its 103rd congress, which opened the day before in Paris.
On a daily basis, the 34,000 mayors of France are on the front line when it comes to the concerns of their citizens, but also to crises such as that of the Covid-19. On Wednesday November 17, all gathered in Paris to elect their new president at the 103rd congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF). A vote all the more important as the one who is at the head of this association can “to build a network without common measure”, underlines the journalist Guillaume Daret, on the set of the 8 Hours of France 2. “It means that the boss of mayors is someone powerful, and it is therefore better not for the government to get angry with the AMF.”
An advice that Emmanuel Macron seems to have struggled to put into practice since the start of the five-year term. “It never went really well with the AMF, especially because of the abolition of the housing tax, but the Head of State is not giving up. He will receive a delegation on Wednesday afternoon in the Élysée, and he will be present for the closing of the congress on Thursday “, specifies Guillaume Daret.
Two candidates are in the running for the head of the AMF. “There is first David Lisnard, the mayor of Cannes (Alpes-Maritimesà associated with the socialist André Laignel, whom their detractors accuse of wanting to make the association an anti-Macron machine. In front of them, we find the UDI mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), Philippe Laurent. There, it’s the opposite, his opponents see in his candidacy an attempt by the machinists to get their hands on the association “, details Guillaume Daret.