The government wants to forbid to the groups to act and to destroy the credit acquired since decentralisation , Olivier Dussopt, deputy of Ard che becomes alarmed, mayor of Annonay and vice-president of the Forum of the territories of PS.

For several months now, lys enne communication is in full swing on the most anecdotal aspects and sometimes the most grotesque to prepare the ground for a reform of the local authorities which on the pretext of simplification carries a bad blow to democracy.

What say the government and UMP without fearing being their own caricatures? Two things in the borders of Populism. Firstly, they settle in scourges of the administrative millefeuille and say their will to simplify, to abolish echelons, rationnaliser for one better legibility and one more high efficiency. Secondly, the local elected representatives are too numerous, coutent a lot and pursue expensive policies. A solution is obvious, to reduce their number. Close the bench, obviousness is obvious with the easiness of the most simplistic arguments and the assistant of populist reflexes regarding the political class.

In reality these two arguments are wrong. Nothing will allow to reduce the number of echelons in the plan of reform otherwise a thin disposition on voluntary rapprochement. Nothing allows either to assert than the number of elected representatives, notably indemnified elected representatives, will lower plan so much am confused and unreadable.

This reform hides the cards. Under the carpet, it is the democracy which is put in trouble.

This plan comes in response to two others. The first concerns the new division and its electioneering character. This new division which, in results equal to those of the 2007, would allow right to get about 30 deputies more. The second is the abolition of the professional tax and the assemblage offered in return for, and which does not allow a compensation of recipes for groups.

What is main danger of the text? There is main four amplifying by the reform of the professional tax.

The first is the announced creation by " territorial advisers " who would replace the regional and general councillors. In pretext to limit the number of mandates, it is the cumul of functions that is so instituted. This device will be unreadable. Unreadable due to the real vagueness of the text in terms of distribution of competences between regions and departments. Unreadable due to complexity and to diversity of modes of polls for elected representatives in the same competences. This announcement empties of its sense the idea of a clear and simplified organisation of territorial levels. She seems more as a will to denature these groups in majorities from now on anchored to the left. It is a historical misinterpretation raising maneuver more than progress.

The second danger concerns the sharing out of competences and especially the financing of plans in this new frame. Bearing a grudge impose a financing 50 % minimum payable by the group master of work, who decides and leads plan, it is a tremendous brake which will be put in investments. Rural districts, often poor, will not be able to face. As common averages often in the centre of basin of life and the cultural, sports, school equipment of which is often calibrated for the population of the basin more than of the only village. On the pretext of putting an end to crossed financings, which represent less than 10 % regional budgets, and to clarify, the most modest groups will be forbidden of plans.

Third danger of this text: will shown to organise local powers better and to follow decentralisation is only the mask sex of a will deeply recentralisatrice. As though Right had never digested laws Deferre, as though it had never accepted its defeat of 2004 A point illustrates this danger; it is about the intercommunalit . If completion and simplification of the card of the intercommunalit make consensus, discreet method reveals. The local elected representatives could in 2012 operate on voluntary choices arbitrated by the town and Community councils in the qualified majority. It would be recovering from common sense if the same plan did not give to the prefects the possibility of imposing these regroupings in 2013. What sense to give to this text which allocates to the representatives of the Government, such powers in this domain and in others?

Finally, fourth reproach in this text, but so many others could be underlined, absence of main concerned: the citizens, the constituents of these groups whom the government seems to dedicate in g monies. Only the creation of " common news " by fusion of common members of the same intercommunalit entraine a compulsory consultation of the concerned citizens.

This four danger is amplified by the abolition announced of the professional tax. This one risks depriving the groups of resources necessary for the investments which they accomplish and that represent about three quarters of public investment.

The State envisages not less than five new resources to replace the recipes of the professional tax: local contribution of activity (and her supplementary contribution), TASCOM, the additional tax on not built properties, a State fund and an allocation supported on a guarantee fund. Nevertheless count is not there and uncertainties are numerous. What future for the departmental funds of adjustment? What mechanisms of revision of tax bases? Besides, the creation of a guarantee fund is the consequence of a compensation that partial by the new taxes. Plan envisages that this allocation would go down by 5 % a year over twenty years, this fall will cancel the possibility of seeing recipes being updated by the revaluation of bases. It is therefore a plan of replacement deceives the eye. He will bring local authorities to strangling and to inability to finance their investments. The government wants to impose on groups a rigour which he does not know even if to apply.

This plan also comes in response to the bad blows already carried to local finances with the uninterrupted fall of the allocations of the State through the integration of FCTVA to norm es envelopes or of the adjournment of the modalities of calculation of DGF

On the pretext of simplification right complicates. On the pretext of competitiveness of firms it chokes groups. On the pretext of decentralisation, she re-centralises and sets up a system of conservation of her power on the main organs of our Republic.

To reform local authorities is a necessity. A double necessity, that to serve better our country but also that to achieve reform by a membership of all and all in plan.

Points of consensus exist and should have been the base necessary for a convergence on this objective.

The clarification of competences of every territorial level with the designation of a group leader for every competence would have been a first useful step towards more legibility. The supervision of the crossed financings would have accompanied him with the support of the associations of elected representatives.

The completion of the card of the intercommunalit makes consensus just as the explicit designation, in direct suffrage, of Community elected representatives. It is besides regrettable that plan does not refer to tracks moved forward by the committee Balladur aiming at making intercommunalit s with clean taxation of the full local authorities and so, at the same time, at subjecting the executive mandates of these to the regime of the cumul.

The question of the status of the local elected representative does not find answer in terms of social welfare system, of regime of retirement or of restructuring. It is not however dissociable of that on the ban often asked of the holding of several mandates concurrently.

Finally, the reform of the local taxation, on the occasion of the abolition announced of the professional tax, would have been able to be the object of a debate lighted by jobs of the committee of finances of the Assembly notably, on the installation of a true system of adjustment between more or less favoured groups.

Material does not miss. Conclusions of the committee Belot to the Senate, report of information (Balligand-Laffineur) to the National Assembly, contributions of the associations of elected representatives. The humus of reform is ready, but of a true shared reform and without electoral ulterior motives.

The government has no look as these jobs and wants to impose a model of organisation and of financing according to its clean objectives. There is instrumentalization of the necessity to change to congeal a power in reality and a hand bets on the levers of action in our country. The mask fell, the government wants to forbid to the groups to act and to destroy the credit acquired since decentralisation.

Battle to be led will exceed widely the perimetre of the parliamentary semicircular auditoriums, widely also the circles of jurists and of the specialists. He concerns life and capacity which each must keep to decide of his future and that of his territory of life. At the risk of leaving democracy under the carpet

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE SOCIALIST AND REPUBLICAN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES
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Call to the mobilisation of the citizens and of the elected representatives of France
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DEMOCRACY, TERRITORIES AND UTILITY IN DANGER
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Grace in decentralisation, regions with a measure of autonomy showed their effectiveness to bring near answers to the needs of Frenchmen.

Today, two plans of the government, dealing with the territorial organisation, other one of the local taxation, attack villages, intercommunalit s, departments and regions of France. They threaten local democracy and utility. They put in trouble the tax and financial autonomy of local authorities, and therefore their freedom.

With these plans, it is tomorrow:
- fewer buildings of schools, of secondary schools and of high schools for our children;
- fewer school transport, regional trains;
- less reception for small childhood, for old persons;
- fewer support of associative plans, culture, sports