Politics. On October 20 and 21, the 38th congress of the National Association of Elected Mountain Officials was held on the Lévézou, during which 500 elected officials discussed various “specificities” including predation, low-carbon mobility or medical desertification.
For two days, in Pont-de-Salars, the members of the National Association of the Elected of the Mountain (Anem) preferred to talk about “specificity” rather than problems. Promulgated on January 9, 1985, it is in this sense that the Mountain Law recognizes the right to difference and the need to adopt general provisions to the particularities of almost 25% of the territory, of which 258 (out of 285) municipalities in Aveyron. Thus was born the Anem. On 20 and 21 October, 500 officials were elected to discuss the future of spas, the goal of achieving the “zero net artificialization” (ZAN) of soils by 2050, solutions for carbon-free mobility, access to care, always through the prism of the mountain. Participants also visited the Bage dam and its pumping station, the Pont-de-Salars sports facilities and inaugurated the “newdeal” multi-operator 4G mobile site.
In addition to Carole Delga who opened the debates, three ministers were also present at the interventions of Arnaud Viala, president of the Department. Caroline Cayeux, Delegate Minister for Local Authorities, whose plane took off Thursday evening from the Orly runway, Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, Delegate Minister for the Organization of the Territory and the Health Professions, blocked by a problem with the plane and present in videoconference, and Dominique Faure, Secretary of State in charge of Rurality. The ministers of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, and of Transport, Clément Beaune also took part in remote round tables, the heart of which was in Pont-de-Salars, also to pay homage to Jean Briane, a figure in the politics of ‘Aveyron who died in 2021 at the age of 91 and who was one of the first presidents of Anem.
Anem took the news
If agriculture was the main absentee of the round tables, “the Minister of Agriculture should follow up to ask the government to downgrade the wolf or the bear”, stressed the new president of Anem, Pascale Boyer, MP from the Hautes -Alpes, succeeded by Jeanine Dubié, parliamentarian from the Hautes-Pyrenees, who has not been re-elected in these two days. The first reports of the elected representatives of the ANEM concern priority measures to limit additional energy costs in mountain areas and the need to develop a new model for calculating the price of electricity, uncorrelated with the price of gas. Opening the debates, Caroline Fayeux assured that “the State will be at your side” in this context “of a sharp increase in the price of energy, materials, inflation that has an even greater impact on the mountains and on those who live there. “. “A differentiated policy to meet specific needs” should go through the Regional Natural Parks and Natura 2000 areas to face these new constraints. “We need to develop the energy mix, as is the case here, while preserving nuclear power to have real energy sovereignty,” said Pascale Boyer.
Solutions for our territories
In addition to access to quality assistance in the mountains, which also motivates the requests of elected Anems or the development of low-carbon mobility, another motion calls for a review of the mandatory transfer of water and sanitation skills in communities, municipalities and maintain this optional competence.
“It was very interesting to see that the problem of rurality and the mountains is common to different geographical areas, which makes the projects more difficult to carry out, explained the deputy of the third constituency of Aveyron, Jean-François Rousset. These solutions must being applied to these territories is a common good to be shared. Like the president of the La Poste group, who, in addition to connecting the territory, must evolve with the times and add new services such as the delivery of medicines, for example. this direction, in particular on the issue of medical desertification “.
Fight against media deserts
Senator Jean-Claude Anglars, a member of the Anem steering committee, specifically presented the departmental example during the roundtable in terms of physician recruitment. The day before the Senate approved the bill aimed at the professionalization of trainees in general medicine and the fight against medical deserters, with a 4th year of training for general practitioners who will practice as a priority in deprived areas, in a study private or in a retirement home. These junior doctors will be paid on a service fee like full-time liberal doctors. Hoping to deploy 4,000 new doctors each year in under-resourced territories, the goal is that after a year of practical training, some of these new doctors will choose to settle permanently.
