The creation in 2016 of a Grand-Est region definitely does not pass.
On Wednesday, ten deputies from the presidential camp announced the filing of a bill aimed at bringing Alsace out of the Grand-Est to once again become a region in its own right, in the name of greater "proximity to public action ".
To support their proposal, the deputies underline the “discontent and misunderstandings” that the creation of this large region has aroused in Alsace, also including Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne, a group considered too vast and without historical and geographical coherence.
The launch in 2021 of a "European community of Alsace" was a "strong step forward" but insufficient, they believe, calling for a further step by making Alsace "a region of full exercise".
This return of Alsace on the institutional level should allow “greater simplicity of public action” and a “simplification of the procedures for our fellow citizens who would no longer have to seek the right interlocutor among the different strata of the community”.
Bringing “the decision-making centers closer to the inhabitants”
It is also a question of bringing together “the decision-making centers of the inhabitants” and of restoring “a perimeter in coherence with the territorial and cross-border specificity of Alsace”, plead the parliamentarians in a press release.
The text is signed by ten deputies, from Modem (Hubert Ott, Bruno Fuchs), Horizons (Didier Lemaire, Vincent Thiébaut, Stéphanie Kochert) and Renaissance (Charles Sitzenstuhl, Françoise Buffet, Charlotte Goetschy-Bolognese, Brigitte Klinkert, Bruno Studer).
Their bill "is part of a sustained dialogue with the government", they emphasize.
They hope that their text will be placed on the agenda of the Assembly in the first quarter of next year.
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