Between Emmanuel Macron and the mayors, a narrative of missed conferences | EUROtoday

There will likely be no reception on the Elysée in the course of the congress of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), which is being held in Paris from November 19 to 21. This isn’t the primary time that this has occurred since 2017, even when this assembly ended up establishing itself as a ritual. This 12 months, Emmanuel Macron is touring Latin America. And the Head of State will due to this fact be fully absent from the gathering of mayors: no go to, no speech, no reception. A primary (excluding 2020 because of the Covid-19 pandemic).

During Emmanuel Macron’s double mandate, relations between the President of the Republic and the AMF steadily deteriorated and in the present day they’re falling into hostile indifference. Budgetary points have turn into some extent of stress. After seven years of Macronism, native elected officers can not bear the teachings of an influence that fails to maintain the nation’s accounts accountable. “Apart from a drift in initially planned expenditure which is due to local authorities, there is no slippage in State expenditure”declares the pinnacle of state to The Expressin May. In September, the 2 former ministers of the financial system and the funds of Gabriel Attal’s authorities, Bruno Le Maire and Thomas Cazenave, primarily attributed the departure from public funds to native elected officers.

For seven years, Emmanuel Macron and the AMF have had a collection of failed conferences. While, below the management, particularly, of its first vice-president, the socialist André Laignel, the affiliation has developed an more and more frontal line of opposition with the manager, the pinnacle of state has distant.

“Too centralizing vision”

After a energetic trade in 2021, in the course of the congress of mayors, the President of the Republic deserted the political occasion the next 12 months, preferring a go to to the “living room”, the place the companions of elected officers collect. In 2023, he was content material with a reception of native elected officers on the Elysée, towards a backdrop of recurring tensions. That 12 months, a gathering on decentralization was organized on the Elysée between the pinnacle of state and native elected officers, with out the AMF. In May 2024, the president of the affiliation, David Lisnard (Les Républicains, LR), proposed to the President of the Republic to resolve, as soon as and for all, the dispute over the funds of native authorities by way of a public debate. Emmanuel Macron by no means responded to him.

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