They all signed. All political sides taken together, all the presidents of the regions are asking for financial guarantees and a “true major reform of decentralization” pour “promote local freedoms” in a forum posted on Saturday September 10 on the website of the Sunday newspaper. This position comes a few days before the congress of the regions of France, which is being held on Thursday and Friday in Vichy, in the Allier.
Presidents of regions call on the government to provide the “guarantee of a stable financial framework and compensation for transferred missions and exceptional expenses linked to inflation”.
They also want either “undertake without delay a real major reform of decentralization”so that “local elected officials have a clear and exclusive responsibility, and the means to implement it”.
“The State must concentrate on sovereign subjects. It’s a matter 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 right-wing presidential candidate or his ex-competitor in the primary LR Xavier Bertrand (Hauts-de-France).
“Promote emancipation”
“This reform must enshrine the principle of differentiation and therefore establish real local regulatory power. It must recognize the specificity and history of our island or overseas territories. Within the intangible framework of the one and indivisible Republic, it must allow autonomy, promote emancipation, promote local freedoms.continue the bosses of regions, including overseas communities.
According to them, “the government must find a new way of working based on dialogue and co-construction” to avoid “It’s up to our country to suffocate under verticality”.
In July, the State and regions committed themselves, during a meeting around Elisabeth Borne, to a “new partnership” aimed at bringing “concrete answers” to the French to achieve ” full employment “integrate the “ecological transition” or invest in means of transport “clean”.