“We support the actions just announced by President Emmanuel Macron”. In a column published in the Sunday newspaper, more than 300 elected representatives from left and right, in particular mayors, salute the “courage” of the health decisions and the economic choices announced in recent days by the Head of State.
“If our political sensitivities are different, our courses 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), Michèle Lutz (mayor of Mulhouse, LR) and Martine Vassal (president of the departmental council of Bouches-du-Rhône, LR). 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.
Amplifying this movement is essential to allow France to regain its independence.
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“On the economic level, 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”.
“Our conviction”, they conclude, “is that we are living a moment of change like history sometimes offers. The alternative is simple: either we divide ourselves in picrocholine wars. Then, France will miss revolutions. in progress: digital, technological, ecological, demographic. Either we make a unit, State and local communities, in a renewed pact of confidence. Then, our Nation will give itself a chance to participate in the invention of the coming world “.
Édouard Philippe did not sign
Among the 382 signatories are still LR Jean-Luc Moudenc (mayor of Toulouse) 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 PS Laurent Cathala (mayor of Créteil).
Finally, it should be noted that the mayor of Le Havre, the former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, requested, did not sign. But several of his relatives did it, specifies the JDD.
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