In a column published in the Sunday Newspaper, more than 300 elected representatives from left and right, in particular mayors, praised the “courage” of the health decisions and the economic choices announced in recent days by President Emmanuel Macron.
“If our political sensitivities are different, our backgrounds are different, we all meet today to salute the courage of the decisions taken, the clarity of the course set”, write in particular Christian Estrosi (mayor of Nice, ex-LR), François Rebsamen (mayor of Dijon, PS) and Martine Vassal (president of the departmental council of Bouches-du-Rhône, LR).
An “ambitious but necessary” objective
The signatories support the “ambitious but necessary” objective of getting all French people vaccinated: “It is indeed only by reaching a vaccination coverage rate of over 90% of the population that we will be able to permanently turn the page. , find a normal life ”, they write.
“From an economic standpoint, we also share the orientations announced, the priority given to work, production and merit,” continue the authors of the forum. According to them, “amplifying this movement is essential to allow France to regain its independence, regain control of our destiny and put the country back on a path of full employment”.
“A moment of change like history sometimes offers”
“Our conviction,” they conclude, “is that we are living through a moment of change such as history sometimes offers. The alternative is simple: either we divide into picrocholine wars. So France will miss the current revolutions: digital, technological, ecological, demographic. Or, we are united, State and local communities, in a renewed pact of confidence. So, our Nation will give itself a chance to participate in the invention of the world to come ”.
Among the 326 signatories are still LR Jean-Luc Moudenc (mayor of Toulouse), Michèle Lutz (mayor of Mulhouse) and Arnaud Robinet (mayor of Reims), ex-LR Laurent Marcangeli (mayor of Ajaccio), Hubert Falco ( mayor of Toulon) and Christophe Béchu (mayor of Angers), or the PS Laurent Cathala (mayor of Créteil).