(Paris) More than 600 local elected officials, including 400 mayors, on Saturday launched an appeal to support the re-election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of the Republic, welcoming “a five-year term favorable to the territories and the municipalities”, in a published forum in the JDD.
“To meet the immense challenges which are those of the Nation – reindustrialisation, further opening up of our municipalities, construction of housing, preservation of our landscapes and success of the ecological transition – we need continuity and stability”, write the authors. 661 signatories, among whom, in addition to the former prime minister now mayor of Le Havre Édouard Philippe, Christian Estrosi (Nice), Hubert Falco (Toulon), Christophe Béchu (Angers), Caroline Cayeux (Beauvais) or Olivier Klein (Clichy-sous- Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis).
“For us, local elected officials from France, Corsica and the Overseas Territories, coming from all political stripes and often having no label, the account is there”, continue the authors of support for the President of the Republic which, according to them, “does not pursue any partisan interest” but “is of general interest”.
“We simply want to continue the relationship of trust that in five years, we have been able to forge with the State”, add these elected officials, including David Valence (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges), Alain Chrétien (Vesoul), Karl Olive (Poissy in Yvelines), Jean-Charles Orsucci (Bonifacio), Sonia Lagarde (Nouméa) or Sandra Trochimara (Cayenne).
“This call is the first concrete act of the pre-campaign of candidate Emmanuel Macron, at the end of this week in the regions”, commented to AFP a tenor of the majority, while many local elected officials have organized these last weeks in support committees, at the initiative of the Minister of Overseas Territories, Sébastien Lecornu, and Thierry Solère, a close friend of Mr. Macron.
The operation comes a few days after the closure of the congress of the Association of Mayors of France, during which the Head of State defended his record with pugnacity, receiving a more positive reception than in the past despite the indictment of the leaders. from the Association.
More than 300 local elected officials had already expressed their support for Emmanuel Macron in a forum in July.