The Île-de-France regional council voted on a deliberation presenting 45 measures this Wednesday for “a shock of decentralization” supported by regional LR president Valérie Pécresse. The deliberation must be presented to the State in the form of a referral. “We demand the regionalization of Pôle emploi, the governance of unemployment insurance, health training institutes, (of) housing, (of)Ademe » (Ecological Transition Agency), explained Valérie Pécresse to the press, insisting: “that the specificities of Île-de-France be taken into account with regard to public transport, economic development, tourism , student life. »
In the field of transport, Valérie Pécresse, also president of Île-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), asks to “have management of the infrastructure” of the RATP (through RATP Gestion et Infrastructures). The former minister denounces, in view of the opening to competition of certain parts of the network, the fact that the RATP could find itself “manager of its competitors’ infrastructure”, a “dysfunctional” situation. Ms. Pécresse also demands “real fiscal autonomy for IDFM” vis-à-vis Parliament while discussions are being held to complete the 2024 budget.
“We no longer believe in Santa Claus or your gesticulations”
“You send your shopping list to Santa Claus, it will be without us. We no longer believe in Santa Claus or in your gesticulations,” denounced the leader of the communist group Céline Malisé, stressing that these proposals are conditional on government policy. “The right (of the regional council) is simply proposing to complete the carving up of French public education,” denounced the communist opposition in a press release, which sees in these proposals “the concentration of new powers” in the hands of the regional executive.
Highlighting in particular “the right to differentiation” resulting from the 3DS law, the regional president intends, in terms of education, to put an end to “double State-region supervision” for vocational high schools, for the benefit of the region. Ms. Pécresse also proposes that “the State authorizes the region to create autonomous primary schools under contract” whose teachers would be recruited by this community and which would be “subject to the logic of results with regular evaluations”. The institution also wishes to acquire “skills in recruiting associate professors” in high schools to “open the teaching profession to civil society”.