Thierry Albertini: “The mayor cannot do everything”

“We live in an era where the world sometimes seems to waver,” said the mayor, quoting Albert Camus to remind us that the task of our generation is perhaps “to prevent the world from undoing itself.”

While instability reigns, local authorities, and in particular municipalities, appear as the last “concrete pillars of the République”. However, the mayor shattered a tenacious misconception: that of the omnipotence of the local elected official. “The mayor cannot do everything,” he hammered home, a true cry from the heart in the face of the sometimes disproportionate expectations of his constituents.

While the mayor remains the “first resort” and the face of proximity, he acts within an increasingly tight straitjacket. WEIGHT OF STANDARDS With rare frankness, the mayor detailed the obstacles weighing on municipal action. Urban planning, security, finance: the mayor “applies the law, he does not make it”.

While he recognizes that standards aim to protect and stem from a just intention, he denounces their accumulation which makes local action “more complex, longer, and more costly”.

Nodding to his colleague David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and president of the Association des Maires de France, he stressed that despite these constraints, the municipal team continues to move forward responsibly to serve the general interest.

It is at the local level that the quality of life is decided, far from national abstractions. Since times are uncertain, the mayor invited the assembly to turn towards what does not change: roots.

To illustrate this continuity, he welcomed the presence of Lauraline, a 6th-grade student at collège Henri Bosco, and her sister Isaline, symbols of the next generation. Far from a simple heritage inventory, the evocation of local history served as a response to the crisis. From the summit of Coudon to the remains of the Latin gate of the church of Saint-Jean (the origins of which now date back to the 5th century A.

D.) , by way of the domaine de Baudouvin and its historical links with the family of Henri de Rothschild, every stone tells of permanence.

The mayor recalled the figures who shaped the valettoise identity, from the poet François Fabié to the famous sculptor César, whose bronze hand adorns the collège, without forgetting the delightful anecdotes about the famous valettoises strawberries that once graced the tables of Louis XIV.