mayors boycott Emmanuel Macron’s cocktail at the Elysée, “a communication operation”

The President is receiving a thousand mayors this evening at the Elysée, while the 105th Congress of Mayors of France is currently being held in Paris.

He invited a thousand mayors to toast. If Emmanuel Macron does not go to the 105th Congress of Mayors of France, which is being held until Thursday November 23 in Paris, he intends to exchange with several of them during a cocktail organized at the Elysée. And if his absence is not “not a fault” according to David Lisnard, the LR mayor of Cannes and president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), guest of 8:30 am franceinfo Tuesday November 21, some elected officials do not see it that way, and therefore plan to boycott the presidential aperitif .

It does not matter that the head of state is detained by a G20 summit, his absence at the AMF congress does not pass for the socialist mayor of Alfortville, Luc Carvounas. “It’s a form of contempt on his part towards us. We are not people to invite to cocktails.” So, there is no question for him of going to the Elysée this evening. “We have other things to do in this Congress than to slap the President of the Republic who does not come to see us in Congress.”

“I will not participate in this communication charade where the president will once again do his one-man show for an hour and then suggest that there was a frank and sincere dialogue with the mayors.”

Luc Carvounas, PS mayor of Alfortville

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Among those boycotting, we include André Laignel, vice-president of the association of mayors of France, and Marcelin Chingan, a Guadeloupean councilor close to the PS. “We are invited, but we will not go. It will be the high mass again, and after that nothing concretecastigates the deputy mayor of Le Moule. It will be of no use because even when his ministers delegated to Overseas arrive, they come to show off, to say that they are in Guadeloupe, in Mayotte.”

An opposition more political than anything else, annoys a minister close to the president. “What matters”according to him, “these are the actions”like when Emmanuel Macron went to Pas-de-Calais, to the flood site. “The elected officials are no longer talking about speeches, but about proofs of love”he adds.