The death knell of the reforms was not sounded

That local elected officials most strongly opposed to the projects initiated by the head of State since the beginning of the quinquennium to keep for said. "There is no great reform without discussion, without great opposition", launched yesterday Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. From this point of view, the restructuring of local communities and the removal of business tax may be included, according to the head of State, in the same category as the pension record or recasts of judicial, military and hospital cards painful: the reforms that are fun to anyone but to which no one can escape.

With regard to the tax professional, abolished in 2009 and elected officials fear the budgetary consequences, "could we continue to keep this real subsidy to delocalization", argued the President of the Republic, eventually rather uncomfortable face assistance including his Prime Minister, François Fillon, had to wipe the bad mood last year. And call mayors on their own sense of the responsibilities of elected officials, who, like him, should say "more often that Yes".

Similarly, the France, except to find themselves in the situation of the Greece and the Ireland, could not be a reform of its local economy, also decried is one that has to be finally adopted by Parliament. "The goal is to find margins of manoeuvre." For thirty years, it has not had the courage to cut in operating expenses. "A million additional public jobs were created between 1992 and 2007," said the head of State. And taking "the loss of energy and finance" due to the stack at local levels over the laws of decentralization. If the Commons, "legacy of a very vibrant local democracy", are not too many, the complementarity of the regions and departments is required. These communities realize "20 billion of expenses in the same areas", argued the head of State in defending the creation of the territorial Councillors. Elected officials including rooting should remain "in a framework cantonal to not kill the rurality.

Brake on standards

Nicolas Sarkozy has also invited mayors to watch two times frost of allocations of State programmed over three years. In 2009, "the State has guaranteed local communities 98 billion euros, while revenues collapsed 20 ", he said. And in 2010, that amount will be EUR 99 billion. Clearly, local communities are not the most to complain about and it would be inappropriate for their elected representatives to reject any efforts to reduce expenditure. "Explain me how can get debt disease France if you don't touch that at 35 of public expenditure, the State", launched the President of the Republic.

But he also promised that the Government would strive to alleviate the bark of the communities. "We will start the year next to délégiférer in several areas: urban planning, housing, crèches. The avalanche of standards in all areas of competence of the communes will be stopped. "There is next year over a single standard put to a vote of the National Assembly and the Senate", promised the head of State.

The death knell of the reforms was not sounded. That dependence will quickly take bodies, taking into account the "bottleneck situation" in which a 15 departments, communities in charge of the APA, are today. "I hear that decisions are taken in the 2012 PLFSS voted in the fall of 2011," insisted Nicolas Sarkozy.