Programs 2022: all the way to the bottom
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Every day until the presidential election, “Liberation” dissects the candidates’ proposals. Today, the will, on the right as on the left, to initiate an “Act III of decentralization”.
Vincennes, January 22 in the afternoon. The right-wing candidate Valérie Pécresse is preparing to receive the support of the UDI. In a conference room reserved for the occasion, the president of the Ile-de-France region listens carefully to the (many) speeches before the formalization. The elected officials of the small center-right party first want to know more about the intentions of the winner of the last LR congress, in particular on the themes that are dear to them. This necessarily causes decentralization: “Are you ready to be the first Gironde and decentralizing president of the 21st century?” then throws him a chosen one. An hour later, in his thank-you speech, Pécresse does not go overboard: “With you, the party of the territories, we will carry out the greatest phase of decentralization since the Deferre laws.”
A strong announcement but which, let’s say it, has nothing very original about this 2022 vintage. For months now, the word “decentralization” is repeated all day long in the mouths of several candidates. Nothing very surprising after the five-year term of an Emmanuel Macron deemed too Jacobin, too centralizing, by local elected officials and opposition on all sides and after a health crisis which was able to highlight certain shortcomings of the State. The vote of the last gra…