The little Faumontois voted to elect the first municipal youth council

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Accompanied by their parents, dozens of children came this Saturday morning to elect their candidates for two years of mandate.For the exercise, they presented their identity card and their dummy voter card for the occasion before passing alone in the voting booth and depositing their bulletin in the ballot box, by being said "to vote»».

This municipal youth council is a novelty wanted by adults this time."It was one of our proposals in our program," recalls Florence Georges, first assistant and member of the Childhood Youth Commission.We thought that we had ideas for our youth, but that they were perhaps not in line with their.The objective is also a learning of citizenship.»»

The desire for a skateboard

Two colleges were created according to the age group: nine candidates for 8-10 year olds (schooling in elementary school) and six others for 11-18 year olds (college and high school).To introduce themselves, they had to share their three major proposals.Everyone's faith professions were distributed in a document all boxes.

Les petits Faumontois ont voté pour élire le premier conseil municipal des jeunes

Gaël, qui est venu glisser son bulletin dans l’urne, voulait se présenter pour « être célèbre»», mais avec son binôme, ils n’ont pas réussi à mettre leurs idées en commun à temps… Émile Capron, du haut de ses presque douze ans, collégien, a lui plusieurs idées à soumettre."The first is to redo the City-Stade if you can because it is a little in debris.Afterwards, I would like to clean up the pond because once there was a drying up and it was not super-Cool.And the third is to redo the paths on the slag and the wood because there is often mud.»»

Sustainable development, bus service to go to college or leisure are the main concerns of other candidates."There is a high demand for a skatepark. C’est un projet que nous étudierons tous ensemble»», poursuit la première adjointe.

In the afternoon, the results were proclaimed in public.The fifteen candidates were finally elected to allow everyone to live the experience.For two years, they will meet approximately every six weeks.An official installation will take place very soon with a delivery of the tricolor scarf.

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For a successful municipal councilor mandate