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The Prime Minister promises money, “confidence” and “a new decentralization” to elected “bulwarks” to crises. But it lacks momentum.
By Jerome Cordelier
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” HASBasically, our job descriptions are alike! This sentence, at the end of the speech, was the only smiling one in the speech delivered to the mayors of France by Élisabeth Borne, at the end of their annual congress, Porte de Versailles, Thursday, November 24. For the rest, the Prime Minister, at no time, gave way to affect, never moving away from her text, which she read in a metallic voice, interspersing it with several “Ladies and gentlemen “.
What cool an assembly of which many of the members already considered themselves – still … – “snubbed” by Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic had, in fact, spent several hours the day before, wandering the aisles of the salon – to have “direct and strong contact with the elected officials” underlined the Elysée –, but had refused …
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