In a column published in “Ouest-France”, around twenty mayors and deputies called on Emmanuel Macron to “rise to the height” of the current crisis.
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IThey call on Emmanuel Macron to take “real action in favor of the poorest 10% of the population” affected by the crisis. More than twenty mayors and deputies, mainly on the left, challenged the president in a letter published in the newspaper West France Monday January 16. They ask him in particular to “be equal to the exceptional situation that we are collectively facing”.
“The major projects of 2023 must be, first of all, the attention paid to single-parent families, to the education and training of young people”, write the signatories, including the socialist mayor of Alfortville, Luc Carvounas, president of the National Union of Communal Social Action Centers (Unccas).
They also plead for support for “economic development to allow each citizen access to a job, adapted and sometimes accompanied, which allows him his financial autonomy, and the construction of the society of “aging well””. “Reception must no longer see central administrations discarding themselves on the municipalities, out of breath and resources”, they warn.
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Among the signatories are the mayors of several large cities, such as Olivier Bianchi and Yann Galut, respectively mayors of Clermont-Ferrand and Bourges, both affiliated with the Socialist Party, or the Republican Isabelle Le Callennec, mayor of Vitré, as well as deputies of cities led by the left, such as Bordeaux, Lyon, Rennes, Nantes or Le Mans.