As soon as he descended from the presidential plane, Emmanuel Macron paid tribute this Monday, April 21 in Mayotte to “the strength of the resistance of all the people of Mahorais.” A tribute, four months after the passage of the Chido cyclone, which had devastated the archipelago on December 14, 2024. The head of state praised “all our compatriots who knew how to resist extremely difficult conditions.”
This visit is the starting point for him of a five -day stay in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, which will also take him to the meeting, Madagascar and Maurice, with the aim of reaffirming the position of France in the region.
“Many have been carried out in recent months to restore the main services,” he said, when the Parliament adopted an emergency law in February that provides for the softening of the city planning rules and fiscal facilities to boost reconstruction.
But “I also know everything that remains to consolidate,” said the President of the Republic, who came to give “the course of the coming months and reconstruction.”
A bill for “re -foundation”
Emmanuel Macron must present a program of programming for the “re -foundation” of the archipelago, ending at the last minute, whose objective is to strengthen the fight against illegal immigration, illegal housing, insecurity and support the local economy.
This text, expected for several years by the elected officials of Mahorais, will be ratified at night by a Special Council of Ministers that the Head of State will preside over videoconferences of the plane that will take him from Mayotte to Reunion, the other French department of this part of the Globe, distant from about 1,400 km.
During his ten -hour visit in Mayotte, he will meet first with the population, representatives of the agricultural sector before talking with the elected officials in the bill.
Four months after the cyclone, Emmanuel Macron can find the same impatience and the same frustrations as in December, while the challenges of reconstruction remain colossal. Water, electricity and telecommunications networks were restored in an emergency. But the Mahorais are still waiting for the beginning of the main sites.
On December 14, 2024, the approval of the Chido cyclone caused the death of 40 people to Mayotte and generated a cost of 3.5 billion euros in damages.
Source: BFM TV
