What is the leeway of mayors in France?
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President Emmanuel Macron during his speech to the Congress of Mayors of France, November 18, 2021 in Paris.
© AFP - Ludovic MARIN
By: Philippe Lecaplain
1 min
Emmanuel Macron spoke on the evening of Thursday, November 18, 2021, in Paris in front of thousands of mayors gathered on the occasion of the 103rd congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF).
The president had already received many of them at the Élysée Palace on Tuesday, November 16, 2021. This congress was the first since the municipal elections of 2020, the last of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron and the last of the president of the 'AMF.
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When he arrived at the Elysee Palace, the Head of State had pointed out elected officials in the field, then the thread was then reconnected with the crisis of “yellow vests” and the “great national debate”.
There is now the question of "nationalization" of the bill for the health crisis borne by the municipalities, estimated at around 5 to 6 billion euros by the AMF.
They were on the front line during the health crisis.
Do they have free rein or are they only relays of the executive?
Mayors, what do they have left?
This is the question of the
Debate of the Day
on RFI.
With
:
Jean-Victor Roux
, territorial administrator, author of the book
Les sentinelles de la République
(editions du cerf)
, and lecturer at
Sciences-Po Aix en Provence
Thomas Frinault,
lecturer in Political Science at
Rennes 2 University
, coordinated the book
Nouvelle sociologie politique de la France
(Armand Colin)
Sylvain Berrios
, mayor of
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
, a town located in the Val de Marne in Ile-de-France
Pascal Beaury
, mayor of the new town of
Mont Lozère and Goulet
of 1,084 inhabitants, which brings together six historic towns (Bagnols-les-Bains, Belvezet, Le Bleymard, Chasseradès, Mas d'Orcières, St-Julien-du-Tournel).
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