Thionville. Vows ceremonies: a fleeting disavowal?

Pierre Cuny’s wish, that of reconnecting with the ceremonies intended for the living forces of the city “and especially for municipal staff”, will not be granted at the start of the year. This meeting, rehabilitated in Thionville under his mandate, comes up against the “good” resolutions expressed on December 27 by Jean Castex. Like last year, the Prime Minister banned this essential from local political life. Finally, not so essential as that on the Thionville scene …

In recent decades, the tradition has been embodied with more or less vigor depending on the personality of the tenant of the town hall. “And the time, too”, moderates Pierre Cuny, anticipating our desire to exhume the “roaring twenties” of the Jean-Marie Demange era (mayor from 1995 to 2008). “Everyone wanted to be on their guest list,” says an observer at the time. Champagne was flowing freely in the Jean-Burger room. His wishes were lavish. The term does not appear to be an exaggeration. By paying, without knowing it yet, of this last “imposed” exercise in 2008, Jean-Marie Demange settled a bill of more than… 37,000 €. “An exorbitant sum”, judged his successor Bertrand Mertz at the time. Which, after redirecting these funds to the budget of the Communal Center for Social Action the following year, broke with tradition until the end of her mandate in 2014. Anne Grommerch (2014-2016) also maintained these ceremonies of vows forgotten.

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“For my part, I am attached to it”, recognizes Pierre Cuny. Weaned from this “moment of important exchanges on the conduct of the City”, the first magistrate recently relied on social networks to address “the forces. In this case, it is an information channel that lends itself rather well, ”he observes.

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