Encouraged by the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, pushed to the forefront by that of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF), David Lisnard, and supported by the parliamentarians who’ve amended the price range for 2025 in latest days, native elected officers in New Caledonia are in flip talking out to avoid wasting their territory.
Friday, November 21, the AMF annual congress exceptionally concluded with a speech by one in every of them, Pascal Vittori, elected consultant from Bouloupari and president of the French Association of Mayors (non-independence) in New Caledonia . The proper has thus proven that it intends to occupy the bottom on this explosive concern for the Republic, even when Mr. Vittori spoke within the title of the 33 New Caledonian mayors, within the absence of his alter ego from the independence affiliation Florentin Dedane.
The municipalities, particularly these of Greater Nouméa, victims of significant destruction since May 13, are going through the dramatic penalties of the riot. “We call for help, for national solidarity”declared Mr. Vittori, within the presence of Prime Minister Michel Barnier, and recalling the information of the disaster: “A drop of 20 to 30% in New Caledonian gross domestic product, representing a loss of 2 billion euros in wealth, a third of the working population unemployed and -25% in operating revenue for our municipalities. »
“We have nothing concrete”
Due to a scarcity of their very own taxation, the latter’s sources depend upon what the three provinces and the New Caledonian authorities pay them, and have abruptly returned to their 2015 stage. Immediate wants are estimated at 180 million euros – of which 54 million for operations and 74 million to start reconstruction. However, from the month of March, even earlier than the riots in Nouméa, the municipalities had been disadvantaged of the extra taxes that the native authorities needed to pay them because of the nickel disaster.
As of Monday, on the Palais des Congrès in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), the AMF offered its proposals to finance the reconstruction of New Caledonia – solidarity fund for distinctive subsidies in 2024, revision of the intercommunal pre-rehabilitation fund, orientation regulation – and supplied a platform to its mayors. Including Florence Rolland, younger mayor of La Foa, within the South province, and member of the Generation NC loyalist motion of MP Nicolas Metzdorf (who belongs to the Renaissance parliamentary group). She has simply been elected president of the Association of Overseas Communities and Communes (130 communities).
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