Quack between the Elysee and the succession of Rebsamen Mayor of Dijon – L’Express

On August 10, date of the next municipal council in the capital of Burgundy, “ François Rebsamen will mayoralty candidate and as President of the Urban Community ,” said AFP Office of the Minister of Labour on Thursday afternoon after a report in Le Parisien evoking a return to Dijon Mr. Rebsamen after a cabinet reshuffle in the coming months.

In the process, this faithful Francois Hollande confirmed to AFP his candidacy stating that he would not abandon his post so far the government. “ As long as the President has not asked me to quit my job, I will assume “, has he said, adding that “ will hand his resignation in the hands of President and Prime Minister when his ministerial commitments will be completed “.

For the Elysee yet, at the same time, we were assured that Mr. Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon from 2001 to 2014 before leaving his place to his first deputy Alain Millot to enter the government should abandon its ministerial portfolio if elected on August 10.

“ If Rebsamen was elected mayor of Dijon, it will be replaced “, it was said in the entourage of the presidency, however, in suggesting a matter of weeks.

And the Prime Minister Manuel Valls on the sidelines of a shift in Picardy, adds: “ François Rebsamen knows it: you can not be an executive chef (… ) and also a member of the government. (…) There is a municipal council (August 10, note), we will have the opportunity to discuss “.

– The ‘Cuvillier jurisprudence’ –

Article 4 of the code of ethics of members of government stipulates that “ devote all their time to the performance of their ministerial duties ” and “ must therefore renounce local executive offices they may hold “. Except to choose the opposite.

But the Minister of Labour, born 64 years ago in Dijon, argued the “ case law (Frederic) Cuvillier “, former Secretary of State for Transport, which had accumulated his ministerial post with the mandate of mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) for five months from March 30 to August 25, 2014.

The one that made the town of Dijon ” the best of terms “, April 28, 2014 on France Inter, had entered the government three weeks ago, for the first time, by accepting, in default of the Interior he coveted, the portfolio of Labour, Employment and Social Dialogue despite a growing unemployment.

Before that, as president of the PS group in the Senate, Mr. Rebsamen had always faithfully supported the head of state since the presidential election, with one exception, not trivial today: the prohibition of dual mandate he wanted to exempt his colleagues.

His successor in Dijon, Alain Millot, 63, died Monday of cancer. In a tribute Thursday afternoon at City Hall, Mr. Rebsamen praised the man who was his first deputy, “ often thankless task ” and “ kingpin “the development of the city since 2001.

After the release of the coffin loud applause, the minister withdrew the offices of City Hall with the relatives of Mr. Millot without make a statement about his candidacy.

In the line of Head of the municipal opposition, Anne Erschens, a return to the post of mayor Mr. Rebsamen would be neither “ a big surprise ” or “ wrong “, but could be” than full-time “. The President of the IDU group in the National Assembly, Philippe Vigier, found him this ad “ strictly indecent, while unemployment continues to break records and that human tragedies multiply “.