intermunicipal elected officials ask to be received “without delay” by Emmanuel Macron

The associations of inter-municipal elected officials questioned the President of the Republic on Monday, September 5 in a letter that franceinfo was able to consult. The Intermunicipal associations of France and Urban France (which brings together all the metropolises, large cities and agglomerations) regret not having been invited by Emmanuel Macron upstream of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) which is due to open on Thursday, and this, “despite the central role of the inter-municipal level and the big cities in the implementation (…) of local public policies”. “We are asking you to agree on a hearing as soon as possible in order to define the terms by which our territorial level will be fully considered in a complementary approach to the CNR”specify the elected officials in the letter.

The intermunicipal associations, which represent a total of “1,200 living areas”recall that all the associations of elected officials engaged last week “a cycle of encounters” initiated by the Minister for Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu, the Minister for Action and Public Accounts Gabriel Attal and the Minister Delegate in charge of local authorities Caroline Cayeux.

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The body of the CNR must bring together from Thursday political actors, unions, associations and citizens around several major themes of long-term reform, such as full employment, old age, health or education. However, the CNR will see its opening session in Marcoussis (Essonne) snubbed by a large part of the opposition. And several unions have on their side announced that they would go there, with reservations. Confronted with this boycott, Elisabeth Borne deplored that the other parties “refuse discussion”while ensuring that “the door would remain open”.