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Which if not the Mayor can play this role

Pressed to stick to the status quo by the Association of mayors of France (MFA), which it closed, yesterday evening in Paris, the 89th Congress, Nicolas Sarkozy going not against their will. "I have decided that municipal, cantonal and senatorial elections calendar would not be changed and that it remains on the calendar that we planned," said the Minister of the Interior. The next deadlines cantonal and municipal will be held in March 2008 and the Senate in September 2008. These dates, arrested under the Act of 6 December 2005, were intended to relieve the initial electoral timetable which would have to succeed five votes on the only year with the presidential and the legislative. "I have pondered and against." On the one hand the advantage for the next Government to have a long range of free elections looming. "On the other, the inconvenience to the elected members of the electoral calendar change again", explained one who is also the President of the UMP.

Review the order of 1945

If this decision did not help Jean-Claude Gaudin, Mayor of Marseille and number two of the party, and Françoise de Panafieu, future candidate for Mayor of Paris and other close to Nicolas Sarkzoy wanting to capitalize on the wave of a possible victory of the presidential and the parliamentary right, it could lessen tensions with its two main rivals are Michèle Alliot-Marie and Dominique de Villepin. The day before, on the grounds of this Congress, the Prime Minister reiterated commitment to set calendar. The tenant of the place Beauvau has step less required to reaffirm its difference from the host of Matignon on an item in the draft law on the prevention of crime discussed in the Parliament. "Who here can tell me that a young minor 2006 reacts in the same manner as a young miner from 1945", launched the Minister who wants to review the order of 1945 to make them accountable to any minor justice persistent offender of 17 years. "The admonitions are useless otherwise to discredit the company and to leave to think about this minor that it can do and all afford," launched Nicolas Sarkozy.

His message was equally for the mayors made concerned by this Bill which makes the linchpins of the prevention of delinquency. "Which, if not the Mayor, can play this role". "Who knows best in each of the families in difficulty neighbourhoods", questioned the very probable contender for the race for the Elysee, in rejecting the "Sheriff" and Attorney qualifiers often multiples to their future prerogatives. "There is no measure of substitution to the police and justice", insisted Nicolas Sarkozy, referring to the content of his Bill. "It is your duty to know what is happening in your town", he continued, including addressing the issue of social workers privilege. Thus, must be that the Coordinator that the aedile means within them "can give all the information he needs to ensure its responsibilities and its mission to the Mayor".

The Minister of the Interior is also shown concerned, from the perspective of the presidential campaign, remain open to proposals of mayors. The amendments prepared by the AMF in the debate MEPs will be accepted. As she wishes, "the Board of rights and duties of families" provided for in the text will be optional.