Bruno Le Maire strongly criticized "irresponsible mayors" who have issued orders to reopen small businesses, despite government instructions.

The mayor of Yerres, in Essonne, is one of these elected officials and responded to the Minister of the Economy on Europe 1.

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The battle around small businesses is raging between the government and elected officials.

Some mayors have taken municipal decrees to authorize the reopening of these signs, despite their closure imposed by the executive as part of the reconfinement. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire strongly criticized these city officials, Sunday on

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"You will allow me to denounce in passing this handful of irresponsible mayors who take orders contrary to decisions taken by the State to protect the health security of the French," he said.

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The mayor of the city of Yerres, in Essone, is one of those elected officials who have taken municipal decrees to authorize the reopening of small businesses.

He replied to the Minister of the Economy on Sunday evening on Europe 1.

"You will push customers to buy on the internet"

"I am particularly shocked to hear Bruno Le Maire treating mayors as irresponsible because it is quite the opposite. If there are people who are responsible at the moment, it is the mayors", retorted Olivier Clodong.

"There is no point in prohibiting hypermarkets from selling such and such a product if you also did not allow small traders to open. You are simply going to push customers to go and buy on the Internet and have them delivered. economic and health solution is the reopening of small businesses, including small non-food businesses, "continued the mayor of Yerres.

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"I hope that the Prime Minister will have heard us and that he will make a gesture (Sunday) evening. The survival of our traders is at stake," he concluded.

While the controversy mounts, Prime Minister Jean Castex, who is the guest on Sunday evening of the 8 p.m. newspaper of TF1, could arbitrate this question.

He could decide in favor of closing "shelves of products that are not essential" in supermarkets in order to "restore equity" with local shops, said Bruno Le Maire.