24 NGOs and unions have launched an enchantment to candidates to defend native public companies | EUROtoday

This is a primary for a municipal election. A coalition of round twenty associations and unions led by the collective Nos companies publics is launching, Thursday January 30 in Lille, a marketing campaign to problem candidates for the March election in order that they decide to defending municipal public companies. The Human Rights League (LDH), Oxfam, the Unitary Trade Union Federation (FSU), France Nature Environnement, Médecins du monde, Solidaires, Attac, the Housing Federation, and even the National Union of Artistic and Cultural Enterprises… the spectrum of NGOs and organizations is broad and reveals the priority of the associative and union world in regards to the state of public administrations within the territories.

The goal of this marketing campaign is to impose topics associated to public companies within the municipal debate and to indicate that native solidarity insurance policies have turn out to be important. The third report of the collective Our public companies amply described, in November 2025, the best way through which entry to public companies is fragmenting, changing into extra complicated and the way public administrations not assure common rights. The decline within the presence of the State is perceptible in all territories, rural in addition to city and in all areas. By imposing drastic price range cuts on native authorities, whereas downloading a sure variety of public insurance policies onto them, successive governments have weakened the latter’s capability to protect solidarity mechanisms.

In a textual content revealed on a devoted platform, the coalition remembers that the municipalities represent “the first link in a collective response to the needs of populations”. “Social cohesion, in the disrupted world and the worrying international situation that we know, is created at the local level”assures Cécile Duflot, govt director of Oxfam. “We do not want the electoral debate to only revolve around a question of casting. Mayors, through their political choices, can change the lives of citizens”underlines Arnaud Bontemps, co-spokesperson for the Nos companies publics collective. The NGOs due to this fact name on candidates within the March election to decide to defending them and ask them to decide to 14 calls for affecting all their expertise.

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