Local elected officials, including heavyweights in national politics, put themselves at the service of the president this weekend. More than 600 mayors, including Edouard Philippe, launched an appeal on Saturday to support the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, welcoming “a five-year term favorable to territories and municipalities”.
“To meet the immense challenges which are those of the Nation – reindustrialisation, further opening up of our municipalities, construction of housing, preservation of our landscapes and success of the ecological transition – we need continuity and stability”, write the authors. 611 signatories in a forum published in the JDD. Among them are, in addition to the former Prime Minister now mayor of Le Havre, Christian Estrosi (Nice), Hubert Falco (Toulon), Christophe Béchu (Angers), Caroline Cayeux (Beauvais), or Olivier Klein (Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis).
Signatories say they are pursuing “no partisan interests”
“For us, local elected officials from France, Corsica and the Overseas Territories, coming from all political stripes and often having no label, the account is there”, continue the authors of support for the President of the Republic which, according to them, “does not pursue any partisan interest” but “is of general interest”. “We simply want to continue the relationship of trust that in five years, we have been able to forge with the State”, add these elected officials, including David Valence (Saint-Dié-des-Vosges), Alain Chrétien (Vesoul), Karl Olive (Poissy), Jean-Charles Orsucci (Bonifacio), Sonia Lagarde (Nouméa) or Sandra Trochimara (Cayenne).
“This call is the first concrete act of the pre-campaign of candidate Emmanuel Macron, at the end of this week in the regions”, commented a tenor of the majority, while many local elected officials have organized themselves in recent weeks in committees of support, at the initiative of the Minister of Overseas, Sébastien Lecornu, and Thierry Solère, a close friend of Emmanuel Macron. The operation also comes some two days after the closure of the congress of the association of mayors of France, during which the head of state defended his record with pugnacity, receiving a more positive reception than in the past despite the indictment. leaders of the association.