From metropolises to small municipalities, no territory is spared | EUROtoday

It is a halftone evaluation that Minister François-Noël Buffet introduced up, Tuesday, May 20, on the assaults suffered by elected officers. Certainly, general, their quantity decreases. According to the official group accountable since 2023 of the query – the Center for Analysis and Fight in opposition to Elected officers -, their quantity went from 2,759 in 2023 to 2,501 in 2024. It is a drop of 9.35 %, when the earlier two years had been marked by will increase: + 32 % in 2022, in keeping with the ministry, and + 19 % in 2023. of the yr could possibly be round 2,100 information.

This represents 48 information per week. “The insecurity that affects elected officials is not just a feelingcontinued the minister placed with the Minister of the Interior, François-Noël Buffet, But a very tangible reality. »» In 64 % of cases, it is the mayors who are the victims of these assaults. Even if other municipal elected officials are also targeted (18 %), such as parliamentarians (13 %).

This is to say all the stake that this subject is ten months from the municipal elections. Little by little, the fear of a vocations crisis seized local elected officials. And these violence appear as an element, among so many others, likely to discourage good wills. One in two mayor plans not to imagine in 2026, underlined François-Noël Buffet. “If our mayors settle for and declare to be inside the attain of a berry, they can not comply with be inside attain”he warned.

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