uncommon concepts from elected officers to save cash | EUROtoday

Since the State has no more cash, there isn’t a level in spending it on “big receptions” that the Elysée normally organizes on the event of the Congress of Mayors, suggests David Lisnard, president of the Association of Mayors of France, whose annual gathering shall be held in Paris from November 19 to 21. It shall be “always a saving”he continues, on October 29, on the social community X.

Mayor Les Républicains (LR) of Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) is neither the primary nor the one one to launch financial savings concepts. Among native elected officers, it was to begin with shock and anger that adopted the announcement, on October 8, by the federal government, of the 5 billion euros effort requested from native authorities to assist restore funds. of the nation in 2025. Since then, whereas some have been working behind the scenes to attempt to save the furnishings, others are competing, with the irony of despair, with kind of uncommon concepts to take part within the nation’s effort. .

Failing to have the ability to oppose it. The mayor of Verdun (Meuse), the socialist Samuel Hazard, launched an attraction for “widespread resignation from local assemblies”. This “major questioning of the government” supposed to ascertain a stability of energy has, for the second, hardly been relayed to native elected officers.

The Haute-Marne departmental council plans to promote a few of its buildings which it makes out there to state brokers. This is the case for the prefecture, sub-prefectures or housing meant for gendarmes or faculty administration employees. “Can a prefect still live, alone, in a castle in the center of Chaumont?asks the president of the department, Nicolas Lacroix (LR). These buildings are now oversized compared to the activity of the State, which has disengaged. »

“Lead by example”

Mr. Lacroix requested his companies to check the thought. Selling buildings that home state brokers shouldn’t be straightforward. The division is required to supply them lodging. Could the prefect swap his citadel for an house within the metropolis middle? The problem is that it should be capable to accommodate any minister, and even the President of the Republic, simply in case… However, Mr. Lacroix doesn’t fully rule out sooner or later placing the prefecture on Leboncoin, even when he doesn’t deny the a part of communication that mixes with initiative.

“We are not against contributing to the efforthe explains. But not at this level. We can’t anymore. » As the measures currently stand, this will represent 7.5 million euros in 2025 for Haute-Marne. “I hope that we will not be forced to degrade support for the most vulnerable”worries Mr. Lacroix.

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