A few days before the Congress of the France regions, which is held Thursday and Friday in Vichy, all ask the government a “stable financial framework” compensating in particular the missions which have been transferred to them.
Le Monde with AFP
They all signed. All political edges combined, all regional presidents, ask for financial guarantees and a “real major decentralization reform” to “promote local freedoms” in a platform posted on Saturday September 10 on the website of the Sunday Journal . This position takes place a few days before the Congress of the Regions of France, which is held Thursday and Friday in Vichy, in the Allier.
Presidents and presidents of regions call on the government to provide the “guarantee of a stable financial framework and the compensation of the transferred missions and exceptional expenses linked to inflation”.
They also want to “undertake without delay a real great reform of decentralization”, so that “local elected officials have a clear and exclusive responsibility, and the means of implementing it”.
“The State must focus on sovereign subjects. It is a question of efficiency”, judge these elected officials, including the socialist Carole Delga, president of regions of France and the Occitanie region, Laurent Wauquiez ( LR), at the head of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Valérie Pécresse, president of Ile-de-France and former candidate from the right to the presidential election or her ex-concurrent in the LR Xavier Bertrand primary (Hauts-de -France).
“Promote emancipation”
“This reform must consecrate the principle of differentiation and therefore establish real local regulatory power. It must recognize the specificity and history of our island or ultramarine territories. Within the intangible framework of the one and indivisible Republic, it must Allowing autonomy, promoting emancipation, promoting local freedoms “, continue the patterns of regions, including overseas communities.
According to them, “the government must find a new way of working based on dialogue and co -construction” in order to avoid “our country to suffocate under verticality”.
In July, State and regions were committed, during a meeting around Elisabeth Borne, in a “new partnership” aimed at bringing “concrete responses” to the French to achieve “full employment”, integrate The “ecological transition” or invest in “clean” means of transport.